What is Japan’s Policy during the world wars?

The League of Nations was unsuccessful in dislodging Japan from Manchuria. Japan could successfully defy the great powers in the name of defending its national interests. The Marco Polo bridge incident opened Japan’s full fledged conflict with China on July 7, 1937. Tokyo advanced to Tientsin, Beijing and Nanking; when war erupted in Europe, Japan was encouraged to pursue its hegemonic ambitions in Asia. Japan looked for alliances in Europe and Asia, signing a Tripartite Pact in 1940 with Germany and Italy – an alliance of mutual utility; increasingly, Japan was being pushed toward confrontation with the Western democracies because of its expansion in China and in South East Asia. Japan’s attack on the US at Pearl Harbor and other Asia-Pacific installations in 1941: but even before that, Japan had an ambitious program for East Asia, the creation of a Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere; Japan supported nationalist movements in the region; after Pearl Harbor and as the war progressed, Japan set up ‘independent’ governments in Burma & the Philippines and pledges were made to the East Indies (Indonesia); Atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in August 1945 spelled Japan’s defeat that would not soon be forgotten.

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