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This might be rather interesting, if not, somewhat challenging. We're accustomed to conceiving of the start of the Pacific War as the Japanese aggression in the Pacific, most notoriously, on December 7, 1941. What was the U.S. doing at that time to the Japanese to precipitate that aggression? Let me try and direct the replies, somewhat. Natural resources and the U.S. embargoes were at the heart, at least, per my historical accounts. Maybe we can go into those more specifically. Maybe there are other precipitating causes, as well, we can identify and go over.
In short, let's hear it from the Japanese perspective. Again, per my understanding, the Japanese were being crowded out. This was their neck of the woods. Just look at who was there trying to control everything from the oil, rubber, lumber, ore, to the spices. Economically, Japan buckled under, their political autonomy was the next to go. That entire group of islands could have easily been starved out. This much, I think, I can say. I'd have been a little pissed off, too.
So, without further adieu; let's get at it.
It is absolutely impossible to separate European (including Americans in that group) racial attitudes from their countries' relationships with Asia and Africa. Basically, there was a strong belief that non-Europeans were incapable of self-government, which was used to justify seizure. Some countries were much better behaved than others -- Belgium seemed particularly horrible, especially when the Congo was King Leopold's little piece of Hell -- but they all worked on the presumption that the non-Europeans were inferior.
And the Japanese and Chinese had been at serious odds over the centuries. When they rolled into Manchuria/China, it showed.And Japan had similar attitudes about all foreigners being inferior
And the Japanese and Chinese had been at serious odds over the centuries. When they rolled into Manchuria/China, it showed.
As an aside, what kind of morality is implied when a war is started because a nation's government wants to prevent the importation of opium?
Japan was becoming "Westernized" well before the War. Just look to the changes in the Emperor's attire to see that.
We all live in the Planet of Apes, don't we?
For Hirohito's honour, I think he was cute at least.
Yesterday, I had a news that Russia is going to reinforce its troops in our northern islands + other Kuril Islands by 2016.
Also today, I had a news that China has seized a Japanese large merchant ship in China as compensation for the Chinese 2 rental vessels lost in ww2. This is against the peace treaty signed in 1972.
The last war was over but red apes are not changed at all.