What Motivated Japanese Aggression in World War II?

[Mindful]

In the 1930s and 1940s, Japan seemed intent on colonizing all of Asia. It seized vast swathes of land and numerous islands; Korea was already under its control, but it added Manchuria, coastal China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Singapore, Malaya (Malaysia), Thailand, New Guinea, Brunei, Taiwan... Japanese attacks even reached to Australia in the south, the US territory of Hawaii in the east, the Aleutian Islands of Alaska in the north, and as far west as British India in the Kohima campaign.


What motivated a formerly reclusive island nation to go on such a rampage?

Why Was Japan So Aggressive in World War II?

 

[gipper]

The article you posted provides the answer.

 

[harmonica]

the militarists were in ''control''
they had assassinations and attempted assassinations
the culture/government/etc was totally different from the US
the US put embargoes/restrictions on supplies needed for the military

. The United States was the main supplier of the oil, steel, iron, and other commodities needed by the Japanese military

Milestones: 1937–1945 - Office of the Historian
obviously they thought this would strangle Japan/Japan's military

they beat Russia 1904-1905--giving them confidence
Japan was an island with little resources
etc

 

[Mindful]

The article you posted provides the answer.

Discuss it then.

Bring in kamikaze, and refusal to surrender, despite the first atom bomb.

 

[gipper]

The article you posted provides the answer.

Discuss it then.

Bring in kamikaze, and refusal to surrender, despite the first atom bomb.

Yeah...Truman needed to incinerate thousands of Japanese women and children, because the criminals running the government of Japan wouldn't surrender.

Is that some kind of warped justification for mass murder?

 

[Mindful]

The article you posted provides the answer.

Discuss it then.

Bring in kamikaze, and refusal to surrender, despite the first atom bomb.

Yeah...Truman needed to incinerate thousands of Japanese women and children, because the criminals running the government of Japan wouldn't surrender.

Is that some kind of warped justification for mass murder?

And many veterans are haunted by that event, to this day.

But at the time, a mathematical justification had to be made. The loss of American soldiers vs Japanese, by conventional means.

Not to forget the Germans were involved in an atomic bomb production, but did not have the means to transport it, unlike the Americans.

 

[gipper]

The article you posted provides the answer.

Discuss it then.

Bring in kamikaze, and refusal to surrender, despite the first atom bomb.

Yeah...Truman needed to incinerate thousands of Japanese women and children, because the criminals running the government of Japan wouldn't surrender.

Is that some kind of warped justification for mass murder?

And many veterans are haunted by that event, to this day.

But at the time, a mathematical justification had to be made. The loss of American soldiers vs Japanese, by conventional means.

Not to forget the Germans were involved in an atomic bomb production, but did not have the means to transport it, unlike the Americans.

That premise to justify mass murder of civilians has long been discredited.

We didn’t need to occupy Japan. As such, no need to invade.

 

[Mindful]

The article you posted provides the answer.

Discuss it then.

Bring in kamikaze, and refusal to surrender, despite the first atom bomb.

Yeah...Truman needed to incinerate thousands of Japanese women and children, because the criminals running the government of Japan wouldn't surrender.

Is that some kind of warped justification for mass murder?

And many veterans are haunted by that event, to this day.

But at the time, a mathematical justification had to be made. The loss of American soldiers vs Japanese, by conventional means.

Not to forget the Germans were involved in an atomic bomb production, but did not have the means to transport it, unlike the Americans.

That premise to justify mass murder of civilians has long been discredited.

We didn’t need to occupy Japan. As such, no need to invade.

They didn't invade.

 

[gipper]

The article you posted provides the answer.

Discuss it then.

Bring in kamikaze, and refusal to surrender, despite the first atom bomb.

Yeah...Truman needed to incinerate thousands of Japanese women and children, because the criminals running the government of Japan wouldn't surrender.

Is that some kind of warped justification for mass murder?

And many veterans are haunted by that event, to this day.

But at the time, a mathematical justification had to be made. The loss of American soldiers vs Japanese, by conventional means.

Not to forget the Germans were involved in an atomic bomb production, but did not have the means to transport it, unlike the Americans.

That premise to justify mass murder of civilians has long been discredited.

We didn’t need to occupy Japan. As such, no need to invade.

They didn't invade.

Funny.

Yet you think the abombs were justified so as to prevent an invasion.

 

[Mindful]

Discuss it then.

Bring in kamikaze, and refusal to surrender, despite the first atom bomb.

Yeah...Truman needed to incinerate thousands of Japanese women and children, because the criminals running the government of Japan wouldn't surrender.

Is that some kind of warped justification for mass murder?

And many veterans are haunted by that event, to this day.

But at the time, a mathematical justification had to be made. The loss of American soldiers vs Japanese, by conventional means.

Not to forget the Germans were involved in an atomic bomb production, but did not have the means to transport it, unlike the Americans.

That premise to justify mass murder of civilians has long been discredited.

We didn’t need to occupy Japan. As such, no need to invade.

They didn't invade.

Funny.

Yet you think the abombs were justified so as to prevent an invasion.

I didn't say that. You said I said it.

 

[gipper]

Yeah...Truman needed to incinerate thousands of Japanese women and children, because the criminals running the government of Japan wouldn't surrender.

Is that some kind of warped justification for mass murder?

And many veterans are haunted by that event, to this day.

But at the time, a mathematical justification had to be made. The loss of American soldiers vs Japanese, by conventional means.

Not to forget the Germans were involved in an atomic bomb production, but did not have the means to transport it, unlike the Americans.

That premise to justify mass murder of civilians has long been discredited.

We didn’t need to occupy Japan. As such, no need to invade.

They didn't invade.

Funny.

Yet you think the abombs were justified so as to prevent an invasion.

I didn't say that. You said I said it.

You must certainly did.

 

[Mindful]

And many veterans are haunted by that event, to this day.

But at the time, a mathematical justification had to be made. The loss of American soldiers vs Japanese, by conventional means.

Not to forget the Germans were involved in an atomic bomb production, but did not have the means to transport it, unlike the Americans.

That premise to justify mass murder of civilians has long been discredited.

We didn’t need to occupy Japan. As such, no need to invade.

They didn't invade.

Funny.

Yet you think the abombs were justified so as to prevent an invasion.

I didn't say that. You said I said it.

You must certainly did.

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

Resources, presumably.
Island nations run dry of those pretty quick.

 

[longknife]

The article you posted provides the answer.

Discuss it then.

Bring in kamikaze, and refusal to surrender, despite the first atom bomb.

Yeah...Truman needed to incinerate thousands of Japanese women and children, because the criminals running the government of Japan wouldn't surrender.

Is that some kind of warped justification for mass murder?

Are you so ignorant that you don't understand the reasoning behind using atom bombs to end the war? No amount of reasoning can change minds like yours.

 

[longknife]

No one has addressed the original question.

Japan's expansionism was caused by a power vacuum in the region. They felt they had the imperial destiny and military capability to bring to fruition the Shinto/Samurai beliefs of their ruling class.

It did not help that a misguided iron/steel boycott was brought about by America.

 

[Flash]

Japan had a medieval war lord mentality but with modern weapons. What could possibly go wrong?

 

[Mindful]

The article you posted provides the answer.

Discuss it then.

Bring in kamikaze, and refusal to surrender, despite the first atom bomb.

Yeah...Truman needed to incinerate thousands of Japanese women and children, because the criminals running the government of Japan wouldn't surrender.

Is that some kind of warped justification for mass murder?

Are you so ignorant that you don't understand the reasoning behind using atom bombs to end the war? No amount of reasoning can change minds like yours.

Germany had already developed an atom bomb. But didn't have the pactical means to use it. But what if they'd had? What would Gipper say to that?

 

[DJT for Life]

The article you posted provides the answer.

Discuss it then.

Bring in kamikaze, and refusal to surrender, despite the first atom bomb.

Yeah...Truman needed to incinerate thousands of Japanese women and children, because the criminals running the government of Japan wouldn't surrender.

Is that some kind of warped justification for mass murder?

And many veterans are haunted by that event, to this day.

But at the time, a mathematical justification had to be made. The loss of American soldiers vs Japanese, by conventional means.

Not to forget the Germans were involved in an atomic bomb production, but did not have the means to transport it, unlike the Americans.

That premise to justify mass murder of civilians has long been discredited.

We didn’t need to occupy Japan. As such, no need to invade.

You do understand that conventional American bombing raids killed
100,000 more Japs in Tokyo, than Hiroshima and Nagasaki...combined

 

[gipper]

The article you posted provides the answer.

Discuss it then.

Bring in kamikaze, and refusal to surrender, despite the first atom bomb.

Yeah...Truman needed to incinerate thousands of Japanese women and children, because the criminals running the government of Japan wouldn't surrender.

Is that some kind of warped justification for mass murder?

And many veterans are haunted by that event, to this day.

But at the time, a mathematical justification had to be made. The loss of American soldiers vs Japanese, by conventional means.

Not to forget the Germans were involved in an atomic bomb production, but did not have the means to transport it, unlike the Americans.

That premise to justify mass murder of civilians has long been discredited.

We didn’t need to occupy Japan. As such, no need to invade.

You do understand that conventional American bombing raids killed
100,000 more Japs in Tokyo, than Hiroshima and Nagasaki...combined

I do and those bombings were war crimes too.

 

[Natural Citizen]

In the 1930s and 1940s, Japan seemed intent on colonizing all of Asia. It seized vast swathes of land and numerous islands; Korea was already under its control, but it added Manchuria, coastal China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Singapore, Malaya (Malaysia), Thailand, New Guinea, Brunei, Taiwan... Japanese attacks even reached to Australia in the south, the US territory of Hawaii in the east, the Aleutian Islands of Alaska in the north, and as far west as British India in the Kohima campaign.


What motivated a formerly reclusive island nation to go on such a rampage?

Why Was Japan So Aggressive in World War II?

Here go - FDR's Pearl Harbor Bait