What was japan's role in world war 2?

Answer 1

That is a huge question... Most simply put, they attacked Pearl Harbor and as a result, got the U.S. involved in WWII... but there is soooooooo much moreto it that could answer your question...

Answer 2

Their role was that of aggressor, first to China and then to Britain and the USA.
Briefly, Japan was a modern industrialized country. China was huge and had lots of coal, but was suffering extreme political fragmentation (the warlord period). Japan needed raw materials such as coal, iron and oil and had virtually none of these. So, she decided to take as much as she could from China. This involved an all out invasion of stunning brutality. Public sympathy in the USA was with China, so the US government imposed an oil embargo on Japan. This infuriated the Japanese and led them to seize Indo-China, the Phillippines, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore. The pacifist sentiment in the US was strong, so the Japanese thought that if they delivered a kock out blow to the US Navy that the US government would come to terms. It was a colossal error.

Answer 3

Well, there was the total destruction of the ancient Chinese city of Nanking on December 1937, where the Japanese tortured and slaughtered between 200,000 and 300,000 unarmed citizens, including women and children. They also raped the women.

Then there were the "death marches", where tens of thousands of American and European prisoners were forced to march 5 to 9 days so they could be tortured before dying in prison camps.

How can we forget the cowardly sneak attack on Pearl Harbor that dragged the U.S. into WWII and escalated the conflict even further?

It's funny that every August, they try to portray themselves as the victims, because of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It it indeed a terrible chapter in human history. However, they brought it on themselves, with their murderous, destructive, barbaric behavior.

Answer 4

Japan observed its function (publicly) as reducing the unjustified western impacts in the Pacific via removing the forces of england, the Netherlands, France and the USA and leaving the section to prosper below interior reach rule (extra advantageous East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere). the reality became into that Japan aimed to dominate the section. in the 1st days of turning right into a member of the conflict Japan had sunk or heavily broken each distant places capital deliver in the section.

Answer 5

Other than aligning themselves with the Axis of Evil (Germans and Russians)... bombing an American Naval base bringing the Americans into the war (and ultimately leading them to end the war)?

Answer 6

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