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Basically because it has very few Natural Resources and wanted to become a modern industrial empire. It felt that the British Empire and the United States were choking off and controlling its ready access to raw materials. pretty much every major world power, pre WWII was trying to build an overseas empire, the imperialist trend of the time period was one of the major long term causes of the war
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∙ 15y agoBasically because it has very few Natural Resources and wanted to become a modern industrial empire. It felt that the British Empire and the United States were choking off and controlling its ready access to raw materials. pretty much every major world power, pre WWII was trying to build an overseas empire, the imperialist trend of the time period was one of the major long term causes of the war
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What kind of empire did American leaders want to build?
They wanted American products in foreign markets, not American flags flying over colonies overseas :)
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so they can end the war against the japan empire as soon as possible
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Yes some times it turns out to be a grate movie
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Why did Japan want to create an empire?
China was interested in Korea because they saw them as an important trading partner and also a military outpost. Japan was interested for them to open 3 ports to trade and also similar to China's reason. They then made a hands-off agreement saying that they would not send their armies to Korea.
What did Japan want to do in the 1930s?
Japan invaded Manchuria. They did this because Manchuria was poorly defended and had many resources. It had living space for their surplus population and Manchuria had enough raw materials, food and other goods that would make Japan self-sufficient.
