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By placing trade restrictions on Japan.
Because Japan invaded French Indochina
The US tried to weaken Japan by placing trade restrictions on it.
Japan does not place restrictions on religion and reproduction like China does. Japan is a constitutional monarchy, while China is a Communist state. Japan enacted strict trade policies that helped its manufacturers, but that led to a huge real estate bubble.
The U.S. stopped selling oil to Japan in July of 1941, which was part of the motivation for the Pearl Harbor attack from Japan's perspective. We were their major oil supplier, and the shipments were stopped in protest of Japan's invasion of French IndoChina. This embargo would've ground their economy to a halt in fairly short order, forcing them to find oil elsewhere. But before they could do that, they had to make sure we wouldn't be able to interfere with their expansion.
Great Britain placed restrictions on American trade.
Tokyo has been destroyed and rebuilt several times. Both Japan and China have become manufacturing powers. -Apex
This is mercantilism.
It is called free trade when there are no restrictions. Many countries do not have Êfree trade and do have restrictions on them.
no trade
The Manchus allowed trading only at special ports, and their leaders had to be paid a tribute.
The UN issued sanctions and trade restrictions.