Why does Japan continue its imperialistic conquest by claiming dokdo's sovereignity?
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it's korea too, not just japan.
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South Korea and Japan
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Sucker, there hasn't been any sovereignty in any country since the corporations went multi-national. This is the last gasp of corrupt forms of government trying to take what they think is theirs before they lose out completely, assuming this fairy tale is even real. You might as well forget complaining because the days of the single nation citizen are gone if not numbered!
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Aikido is from Japan, Hapkido Korea.
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see links.\nBasically. us cracks japanese code, we go on offensive, becomes pivitol point in war.
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the U.S. stopped trading with Japan because Japan was an imperialist power which means they wanted to take control of China's resources and/or goods for their own profit.
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Japan became increasingly militaristic in the 1930's and wanted an empire free from western colonialists known as the "asian co-propersity sphere". China overthrew the last dynasty and was then embroiled in a civil war between the Chinese nationalists led bt Mao Zedong who were more right wing and the Chinese communists led by Chiang Kai Shek.\n\nIn 1931 under false pretexts the Japanese bombed the Manchurian railway lines and accused the chinese of doing it (much like Hitler and the Nazi's setting the reichstag on fire and blaming it on the Communists.), this gave them the excuse to invade Manchuria(North west China)under the pretext of "protecting Japanese property".\n\nJapan subsequently invaded and Blitzed Manchuria without warning. They would setup a pupper goverment and the former Chinese emperor puyi who was overthrown by the nationalist revolution would become its "head of state" and it was renamed to Manchukuo which was in theory independant but in reality under the control of the Japanese.\n\nThis shocked the nationalists as they were fighting a war with the communists and didn't expect this so Chiang Kai Shek tried to negotiate a peace treaty which was extremely unpopular and he would be heavily critisized for selling out under Japanese pressure. Several conflicts would arise between 1931 and 1937 but there was not yet an all out war just a bunch of skirmishes.\n\nPeople were very aware of the threat and that the civil war could threaten China's response to Japanese invasion of greater China. The civil war would brew on that was until 1936.\n\nBy 1936 Chiang Kai Shek's own generals grew discontent and in a plot that would shock China and the world he would be kidnapped by his own generals and be forced to cease the civil war in favour of a united front between nationalists and communists, At first he stubbornly refused but then later would agree. After he had agree he was set free and would adhere to a ceasefire.\n\nBy 1937 the Japanese grew increasingly aware that their plans for expansionism were in jeopordy if they didn't take action so near the Marco polo bridge they started an incident which would cause the Sino-Japanese war and later merged into world war 2.\n\nRead the sources.
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Japan defeated Russia in the Russo-Japanese War, from 1904 to 1905.  In the resulting Treaty of Portsmouth, Japan receives Korea as a protectorate nation, as well as the transfer of Russian interests in the area of southern Manchuria.  Japan then establishes itself as an imperial power in Taiwan and Korea.\nThese proceedings, of course, came after the Sino-Japanese War, which lasted from 1894 to 1895.  In this earlier war, China and Japan fought over control of Korea; Japan won.  In the resulting Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895, Japan becomes an imperial power after ceding Taiwan and the Pescadores from China.\nAfter the Meiji Restoration and the fall of samurai and the traditional feudal class system, with Commodore Perry's arrival as a catalyst, Japan began rapid modernization and Westernization.  These events see the establishment of Japan as an ultra-nationalist, imperial power, with relatively equal standing amongst the great Western powers of the time.\nJapan controlled Korea during World War II, and they killed 35 million Chinese, 6 million Koreans, and 1 million Filipinos during their occupation of East Asia.
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It wouldn't matter if it wasn't for the question of the fishing rights! Japan has historical evidence of Takeshima being Japanese territory too, but Korea put 2 people on the island to stake a claim more officially - you know what they say about possession being nine tenths of the law...!!\n\nIf I have to choose, I say it belongs to Japan. But personally I think the aliens should come along one night and blow the island up (after removing those people to safety of course...!) Can you imagine the arguments afterwards? "YOU blew up MY island!!" "NO - YOU blew up MY island!!" ... he he he! ... it could go on for DECADES!!
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Don't let others get you down.  The Japanese government of World War II was very aggressive in taking over large portions of China, Korea, Phillippines, gererally Asia.  The soldiers were cruel.  In Korea, they took girls and had them be sex slaves for the Japanese soldiers.\n\nIt happened a long time ago, but some of the other people hear these stories from their grandparents and some of the anger is focused on you because of your heritage.\n\nIt is in the past.  Don't let them bother you.  I am Chinese and do not harbor any ill feelings to Japan or its children.  Be proud of your heritage.  Japan and its people have accomplished a lot since the WWII.
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Please take the required informations of South Korea \n\nThe Republic of Korea (ROK for short; Daehan Min-guk in Korean) is a country in East Asia, covering the southern half of the peninsula of Korea.\n\nTo the north it borders North Korea with which it formed a single nation until 1948, while Japan lies across the East Sea (Sea of Japan; see Notice on Talk page) and Korea Strait to the southeast. The Korean name of the country means "Great Han Republic," and comes from Daehan Jeguk ( "Great Han Empire"), the official name of Korea from the 1890s until the Japanese occupation of Korea. The country is commonly called Namhan ("South Han") in South Korea and Namchosŏn ("South Chosŏn" (McCune-Reischauer (MR))/"South Joseon" (Revised Romanization (RR))) in North Korea. \n\nOfficial language  Korean\nCapital               Seoul\nPresident            Roh Moo-hyun\nPrime minister          Goh Kun\nArea - Total -            99,274 km² \n% water                    0.3%   \nPopulation                 Ranked 107th\n                                 48,324,000\n\nIndependence           Japan is defeated in World War II - Korea regains autonomy\n - Date              August 13, 1948\nCurrency           Won\nTime zone         UTC +9\nNational anthem  Aegukga\nInternet TLD  .KR\nCalling Code 82\nNational Bird            Magpie\nKorean Tiger is the unofficial national animal for S.K.
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It is not surprising given the fact that once they had claimed the Sikkim.  If tomorrow China claims entire north east as its part, even then we should not be surprised.  What we should do now is bluntly ask China to stop the territorial expansion drive.  They have already taken over the Tibet which was never a part of China.  They have even laid Rail route in Tibet region, which is supposed to give greater freedom to Tibetan people, though their actual aim is to supply the military weapons on mass scale that too with speed.  Therefore India should concentrate on building up the Agni -III missile which is capable to hit Chinese cities, if it is required in future (minimum nuclear deterrence capability)
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The US had been putting political and economic pressure on Japan to end their occupation of Mongolia and parts of China, and withdrawing their troops.  The Japanese weren't going to do this, and were actually planning on expanding the scope of their war in China.  However, they needed more resources to do so, and the nation of Japan is almost totally dependent on importing natural resources such as rubber, iron, oil, etc.  They were considering invading the British and Dutch possessions in the East Indies in order to obtain the resources they needed, and it became imperative for them to do so once the US cut off exports of the resources they needed.\n\nSo, faced with needing more resources to simply run the country at a normal level, much less support the ongoing war in China, they decided to take the East Indies possessions they needed.  However, they realized that this would start a war with the Dutch and English (who were already involved with fighting Germany and didn't pose much threat), yet even more importantly would probably see the US enter into war against them.  Therefor, they decided to launch a preemptive attack against the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor to prevent it from interferring with their operations.  They hoped to do enough damage to prevent the USN from interferring at least until they captured the possessions they needed, and also hoped that the American people would be appalled by the large loss of life and wouldn't have the stomach to start a war with Japan, and would then simply accept the status qou at that time.  However, as we all know, it didn't work out that way.\n\nIgnore all the answers involving conspiracy theories that we let Japan attack Pearl Harbor just so we could enter the war.  They're so ludicrous they're not even worth thinking about.
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the japanese invasion of Manchuria
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Nope; the planners of the attack were firmly convinced that it would strike a crippling blow against their eventual rival in the Pacific, forcing the U.S. to make more favorable arrangements to split spheres of influence in the Pacific Rim.\n\nThe Japanese Empire was shamelessly and eagerly imperialist; they wanted everything in Asia subservient to them.  They saw the U.S.A. as the only serious obstacle to that hegemony, since the English, French, and Dutch were tied up in World War.
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Imperialism is the belief that it i desirable to  extend country's influence though any means such as trade, diplomacy, and military conquest.   If you did not, other countries would and chock off your resources. You could not expand and maintain your economy,\n\nThis was the time of the JP Morgan and other Industrialist.
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Japan has a Self Defense Force as stipulated by the treaty that ended their involvement in WW2.  They may not engage in any kind of overt acts against other nations, although they are freely allowed to defend their shores against attack and they are allowed to go to other nations on humanitarian missions.