World War 2 Japan's Economic Crisis

The Economic Effect on Japan during Post World War II Japan’s economy was greatly affected by the atomic bombs dropped on both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan’s economic recovery as a result of this incident transformed Japan’s economic growth which has become known as the “Economic Miracle.” The bombs caused Japan to reconstruct many more facilities in which the economy moved forward. The Economic Planning Agency, which used to be known as the Economic Stabilization Board, helped Japan to become one of the leading economic nations. The United States also contributed to much of Japan’s recovery by occuping it from 1945-1951.

1937, Japanese Aggression War against China, a serious impediment to US interests in China. Because of the heroic struggle of the Chinese anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians, resulting in Japan 's long depression "China quagmire" and its mainland policy will be gradually bankruptcy. The signing of France and Germany 's victorious and "Germany, Italy and Japan Alliance Treaty", to Japan injected a shot in the arm, in order to bail out, Japan attempt to use the ocean policy to rescue victory and the failed of mainland policy, and, therefore, decided to implement south Strategy.

The Japanese invasion of Manchuria played an imperative role in international relations between 1931 and 1936, marking the collapse of the League of Nation, arising coalitions, and the inevitable road to World War II.

Joseph Keenan, the chief prosecutor during the Tokyo Trial after the war, stated that the attack on Pearl Harbor violated both the war agreement and was a deceitful and treacherous act:" But the attack of Pearl Harbor did not alone result in murder and the slaughter of thousands of human beings. It did not eventuate only in the destruction of property. It was an outright act of undermining and destroying the hope of a world for peace. " (Keenan 57-58). In addition, the attack on Pearl Harbor was a crime against humanity since Japan gave American soldiers no time to organize proper defense, and deprived them of their right to fight for their safety. Japan also humiliated U.S. soldiers during the attack, which is a violation against human dignity. Japan attacked the Pearl Harbor to weaken U.S. , as a powerful response to U.S. oil embargo to Japan. In 1941, Japan and China reached stalemate, and the former was in dire need of resources for a long war. U.S. and the Western oil sanction did not want Japan to exploit the oil resources in China and Southeastern Asia, so U.S. set an embargo on oil to restrict Japan. Japan wanted the resources, but was concerned with U.S. military power, so it decided to strike a sudden attack to weaken U.S. in order to acquire resources and win the Sino-Japanese war. Clearly, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor to prevent U.S. intervention of Japanese interest, and Japan, desperately wanting U.S. out

A modernized Japan seeing the interest that the Chinese had with Korea saw the potential of this area and the economical importance of having this territory. This is what began the war as China didn’t want to lose their control over Korea which it eventually did in their losing the war. “Japan fought a war against China in 1894-95 over the control of Korea and gained Taiwan, Japan's first colony. In 1902, Japan signed an alliance with Great Britain, which signified a dramatic increase in international status and in 1904-5, Japan won a war against Russia, one of the major Western powers. In the process Japan expanded its empire, annexing Korea”. The Sino-Japanese war was their first foray into a major conflict of war and their success followed them, with a conflict with Russia and again success; Japan was now on its way to show the world it was a power to reckon with. The growth of Japan for much needed resources was one of the factors into their expansion plans, as an island nation they had limited capabilities and less land to accommodate any growth of resources, so they had go use the military to gain what they needed to boost their

In the past few decades, Japan has experienced a rapid growth with various problems associated with urbanization. Japan has also been facing declining birthrate, aging population, poverty, and overcoming deflation. Urbanization has enabled economic growth but it has contributed to climate change, pollution, congestion, and the growth of slums. Also Social and Economic development cannot be achieved without addressing global warming and other environmental issues. Due to these problems, Japan has passed several laws to implement urbanization policies and city growth management programs that primarily target regional balance in growth and concentration. On top of this Japan has worked its way to reform its economic and social issues.

Prior to World War Two Japan had been going through an economic crisis and was having issues with its government. The Japanese society was very militaristic and prideful making it a key power in world affairs. Their people have a strong and deep seated loyalty to their country.

The Japanese were also led by an ultra-nationalist government. They were very militaristic and had one of the most powerful armies at hand in Asia. Japan led all the countries participating in the world with a staggering 28.2% of the country's national income on defence and military. As Japan racism ruled throughout the military and they thought of themselves so highly that anyone who was not Japanese was considered inferior. Even before WWII Japan had a history of fighting and war with other countries. They had many disputes with China and also had some conflict with the Soviet Union, then later with the U.S in the war. Whenever conflict would arise, the japanese result would always be militarism as that is what the motive of the country was. Both Germany and Japan’s strong sense of nationalism was a great motivation for them to start WWII. With the Germans wanting to blame all struggles against the Jews and becoming a very anti semitic country, all this hate led them to finally pull the trigger and start their execution of the Jews during the

In 1931 an explosion on a South Manchurian railway, which was attributed to China, gave Japan the necessary justification to take military action. That September the Imperial Army of Japan launched a large scale

1937 July 7 - Japan invades China. In the time before World War II, Japan was growing rapidly. However, as an island nation they did not have the land or the natural resources to sustain their growth. Japan began to look to grow their empire in order to gain new resources. They invaded Manchuria in 1931 and China in 1937.

When most people think of World War Two they think of the Nazis and the concentration camps. They also think of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two sides, powers as they are named, of this major conflict were the Allied powers, the good guys, and the Axis Powers, the bad guys. Japan was part of Hitler’s Axis Powers and became Hitler’s eyes in the sea. Japan, prior to the 1940s, started to invade northern China and Korea. Japan gained control of Manchuria (Northern China) and all of Korea and then gained what would be known as Taiwan after the Sino-Japanese War. In the Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War Japan was fighting to gain control and prevent the Chinese and Russians from making a move on them, the Japanese, being such a small country, feared that Russia and China would try and take the power that they had built overtime.

Japan expanded into Korea and Taiwan and Manchuria (the industrial heartland of China). But, this wasn’t enough for them; they wanted to dominate China as a whole. Japan wanted to prove to the world that it's an extremely powerful and strong country by especially invading China, which was traditionally the most powerful country of East Asia. (history.state.gov) In addition to that, Japan was still fighting in World War II and they need to make weapons and military equipment but, since they lacked resources, they saw that the Chinese resources would be extremely helpful. Another big reason behind their invasion was to strengthen their strategic position in the region. Unfortunately, the Japanese disrespected the Chinese civilians and overused their resources which caused extreme hatred from the Chinese towards the Japanese.

Japan is a fairly large country, ranking high on the list of biggest-to-smallest list of all countries in the world. The Japanese had also already seized Korea in the First Sino-Japanese War, increasing Japanese territory. The Japanese conquest for land led them to also sign the Tripartite Pact, deciding to split land they conquered. The Japanese kept trying for more land, but eventually, even the the land they had gained, was lost.

During world war II, US president ordered to attack on Japan with Nuclear bombs. Two bombs named little boy and fat man, made up of uranium and plutonium, were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively. It caused human life calamity of 140000 people in Hiroshima and 80000 people in Nagasaki and colossal damage from radioactive radiations. Eventually, Japan surrendered to the allies power and consequently, the world war II

During the early 1930's Japan was growing through difficult times in their economy and their relationships with their neighboring countries. Japan was weakened by these issues and blamed China for a lot of it. They need to find away to regain power in Asia and the used the Manchurian Crisis to do it. The Manchurian Crisis affect militarization in