Global Politics and Pre-World War II Japan. Emerging Chinese nationalism, the victory of the communists in Russia, and the growing presence of the United States in East Asia all worked against Japan's postwar foreign policy interests.

In accordance with U.S. policy, Japan recognized the Republic of China on Taiwan as the legitimate government of China after World War II, though Japan switched its recognition to the People's Republic of China in 1972.

2020年2月2日 · On December 7, 1941, nearly 90 years of American-Japanese diplomatic relations spiraled into World War II in the Pacific. That diplomatic collapse is the story of how the foreign policies of the two nations forced each other into war.

Japan annexes Korea, further paving the way for the invasion of Manchuria in 1931. [1]

The report declared that Manchukuo remained part of China, but several other countries granted it diplomatic recognition as an independent state before World War II. In February 1933, when the findings of the Report were announced, the Japanese delegation walked out of the League of Nations; Japan gave formal notice of its withdrawal on March ...

The Japanese involvement in World War II has it roots in the country's rapid industrialization and modernization after the 1866. In less than 50 years, Japan went from a feudal society to one capable of building iron-clad battleships.

2025年1月28日 · In the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05) that followed, Japanese arms were everywhere successful; the most spectacular victory occurred in the Tsushima Strait, where the ships of Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō destroyed the Russian Baltic fleet.

2025年1月28日 · On July 7, 1937, Japanese troops engaged Chinese units at the Marco Polo Bridge near Beijing, leading to warfare between China and Japan. Japanese armies took Nanking, Han-k’ou (Hankow), and Canton despite vigorous Chinese resistance; Nanking was brutally pillaged by Japanese troops.

Analyze the concept of Kokutai, or “national essence,” and characterize the state of Japanese national identity on the eve of World War II. Summarize the characteristics of Japanese nationalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the events that contributed to the development of this national identity.

Professor Smethurst has written widely on aspects of pre-World War II Japanese history, including two major monographs, A Social History of Prewar Japanese Militarism (University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1974) and Agricultural Development and Tenancy Disputes in Japan, 1870-1940 (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1986).