How is Japan’s power after World War I?

At the close of WWI, Japan had become a world power; it emerged from the war in a stronger position; Japan’s economic strength had enabled rapid military expansion. The conquest of Manchuria in 1931 further strengthened the military so that it spread outward toward northern China; another conflict with China erupted in 1937, leading to total war and China’s defeat; Japanese aggression led to the union of nationalist under Chiang Kai Shek and communist forces under Mao and independents into a nationalist popular front that was bitterly anti-Japanese; this Japanese conduct ultimately contributed more than any other external factor to the success in 1949 of communist revolutionaries in China. Japan’s Asia policy had strong regional appeal – by the 1930s, Japan had developed the concept of a “Greater East Asia co-Prosperity Sphere’ whose basis lay in the strides made by Japanese trade and investment throughout the region, but more importantly in the sphere of political nationalism.

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