reasons for japan's aggression against china.?

Question

why did japan invaded china? why!!!!!

Answer 1

The first direct major military conflict between China and Japan occurred during the Yuan (Mongols) Dynasty. The Yuan forces under Kublai Khan attempted to invade Japan after it conquered Korea. The first advance in 1274 was repulsed by a typhoon. A second massive invasion landed in 1281 and was defeated by another typhoon (known in Japanese as kamikaze - ‘Wind of god’) that struck the islands, destroying half the Yuan force, which was estimated around 15,000 sailors and 900 vessels.

The Sino-Japanese War 1894-95, leading to the Russo-Japanese War, a conflict between Japan and China that marked the emergence of Japan as a major world power and demonstrated the weakness of the Chinese Empire. As a newly emergent country, Japan turned its attention towards Korea. It was vital for Japan, in order to protect its own interests and security, to either annex Korea before it fell prey (or was annexed) to another power or to insure its effective independence by opening its resources and reforming its administration. As one Japanese statesman put it, Korea was "an arrow pointed at the heart of Japan". Japan felt that another power having a military presence on the Korean peninsula would have been detrimental to Japanese national security, and so Japan resolved to end the centuries-old Chinese suzerainty over Korea. Moreover, Japan realized that Korea’s coal and iron ore deposits would benefit Japan's increasingly-expanding industrial base.
Korea had long been China's most important client state, but its strategic location opposite the Japanese islands and its natural resources of coal and iron attracted Japans interest. In 1875 Japan, which had begun to adopt Western technology, forced Korea to open itself to foreign, especially Japanese, trade and to declare itself independent from China in its foreign relations. In 1884 a group of pro-Japanese reformers attempted to overthrow the Korean government, but Chinese troops under General Yuan Shih-k'ai rescued the King, killing several Japanese legation guards in the process. War was avoided between Japan and China by the signing of the Li-ito Convention, in which both nations agreed to withdraw troops from Korea.

In 1894, Kim Ok-kyun the pro-Japanese Korean leader of the 1884 coup was lured to Shanghai and assassinated, probably by agents of Yuan Shih-k'ai. His body was then put aboard a Chinese warship and sent back to Korea, where it was quartered and displayed as a warning to other rebels. The Japanese government took this as a direct affront, and the Japanese public was outraged. The situation was made tenser later in the year when the Tonghak rebellion broke out in Korea, and the Chinese government, at the request of the Korean king, sent troops to aid in dispersing the rebels. The Japanese considered this a violation of the Li-Ito Convention, and they sent 8,000 troops to Korea. When the Chinese tried to reinforce their own forces, the Japanese sank the British steamer 'Kowshing', which was carrying the reinforcement troops, further inflaming the situation.

War was finally declared on 1st August 1894, and although foreign observers had predicted an easy victory for the more massive Chinese forces, the Japanese had done a more successful job of modernizing, and they were better equipped and prepared. Japanese troops scored quick and overwhelming victories on both land and sea. By March 1895 the Japanese had successfully invaded Shantung and Manchuria and had fortified posts that commanded the sea approaches to Peking. The Chinese sued for peace. In the Treaty of Shimonoseki, which ended the conflict, China recognized the independence of Korea and ceded Taiwan, the adjoining Pescadores, and the Liaotung Peninsula in Manchuria, to Japan.

The second Sino-Japanese War (1931-1945)
The second Sino-Japanese war was not a war in the classical sense; it was more of a resistance war against an invader and occupier. It lasted almost 14 years, making it one of the longest resistance wars in history. Most historians agree that during this period, the Japanese committed against the Chinese people some of the worst atrocities and war crimes in modern recorded history.

China was weak and in chaos after the collapse of the Qing Dynasty in early 1900s; it was ruled by various regional warlords without a strong central government. The Nationalist government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was the nominal central government but it was riddled with corruption and devoid of any vision for the country. Japanese was a rising power, especially after its victory in the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905. Militarism and imperialism was the dominant policy. Japan needed new territories and land that have abundance of natural resources.

China’s Manchuria was an area with abundance of natural resources. It is also located next door. Japan started infiltrating Manchuria as soon as the defeat of Russia in 1905. In September 18 1931, following a Japan fabricated bombing incident at Mukden against Japanese railway, the Japanese army occupied Manchuria and established the puppet state of Manchukuo (February 1932) with the last Manchu Emperor, Pu Yi, as its puppet figurehead. Following another manufactured “incident” at Lugou Bridge (north of Beijing) in 1937, the Japanese began the invasion and occupation of China in earnest with approximately 200,000+ troops. Within 6 months, Japan had captured and occupied most of northern and south-eastern China, including the major cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Nanking.

Answer 2

It was not only Japan. The era after late 19th century was the time of colonization and imperialism.
We have to remember Great Powers in the world were struggling for the hegemony in Asia.
http://www.book-of-thoth.com/thebook/index.php/Image:China_imperialism_cartoon.jpg

Even before WW2 (1939-1945), European great powers were in China continent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concession_%28territory%29

If you use the word "invade", you have to use same word for western Great powers at that moment as well. Expanding or Empire building are proper word for that era.

Natural resources won't be a reason substantively. There was no high excavation system in China at that time. But economy can be a good reason. Japan built a nation called Manchukuo, a puppet state by Japanese army in the north-eastern China, and there were 5 races lived together, Manchurian, Han Chinese, Mongolian, Korean and Japanese. It worked well and the city became modern in short period as below.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37332502@N00/sets/72157594437286053/

Answer 3

Its 'invade' my dear...not 'invaded'.

To expand..thats why. Japan needed the room and they needed the resources that China had and they did not.
naturally there's much more to it than that but simply put thats the reason behind the invasion for the most part.

Answer 4

beginning in the mid-19th century, Japan pushed to modernize, and emulated the great poewers of the day. European nations all had empires, so Japan decided it needed an empire, too, to assume its perceived rightful palce as a great nation. When they were condemned for expansionism, they say that condemnation by European powers as hypocritical; and it was - if Europe did not approve of overseas expansions, it should have given up its empires.

Answer 5

Because Japan is tiny and has no resources and China is huge, having all kinds of good raw materials and lots of land for farming and it is close (Same old story for every war, with the exception of the USA, which likes to rage wars against tiny defenseless countries - Cuba, Haiti, Panama, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Burma.......)

Answer 6

Admiral Yamamoto have been inspired by utilising the British raid on Taranto, the place airplanes had sunk a number of Italian capital ships, and from that progressed his secret plan to bomb Pearl Harbor. Yamamoto did no longer have faith Japan ought to be triumphant for long against u.s., yet while conflict had to come again, he wanted the Pacific fleet out of action from the initiating. u.s. had all yet made conflict unavoidable by utilising freezing jap sources and refusing to sell Japan metallic and exceptionally oil as a protest against Japan's China regulations. there is not any oil in Japan (that's a volcanic island), so the jap had to get oil from places like the Dutch East Indies. for this reason, a disagreement with the U.S., exceptionally over the Philippines, became into inevitable. Yamamoto's plan became into imaginitive yet no longer imaginitive adequate. the biggest objectives weren't the battleships however the oil storage centers (Hawaii is a volcano too). Had the jap destroyed all the oil, then ringed the island with submarines to maintain tankers out, the battleships could have been lifeless iron. So might all of the different warships. devoid of Hawaii as a forward staging floor, u.s. ought to no longer have taken the combat to the enemy. the belief of the attack became into no longer as loopy because it regarded. between the subjects became into the fleet commander, Nagumo. He became into as conservative and pedantic as Yamamoto became into imaginitive. He observed his time-honored project as launching the raid and getting the fleet returned to Japan devoid of losses. So, he spoke of as off the planned 0.33 strike, which might have centred the oil tanks and the restoration centers. Nagumo additionally became into to blame for the overly conservative movements of the jap fleet at Leyte Gulf. He became into no longer the guy to be on the helm of such risky operations. FYI: we surely had a plan to bomb them first, and had accumulated B-17s interior the Philippines to end this, however the plan might have required Russian cooperation to enable commute bombing by utilising skill of Kamchatka (the B-17 ought to no longer make it to Japan and returned to the Philippines), and the Russians weren't going alongside. that's speculated that the clarification the yank vendors weren't in Pearl Harbor for the time of the raid is via the fact they have been ferrying the fighter escort for those raids to places like Wake Island. further bombers have been being staged to the Philippines out of Hawaii, and a flight of them from the West Coast surely flew authentic into the attack. a pair have been shot down.

Answer 7

Empire building

Answer 8

empire