Hirohito .
Trade with Europe declined during the Depression.
Resources
Yes Japan has a lot of resources
Oil, rubber and steel.
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Hideki Tojo .
Embargo and their need for resources
Japan is the second largest steel producer in the world only under japan. Steel is a raw material.
To gain the vast resources they desperately need to fuel there war effort in WWII
Japan lacked many Natural Resources.
Antique figurines marked with Japan or Occupied Japan can be looked at by an antique appraiser to determine the age. The most collected figurines from Japan are from the 1930s and 1940s.