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Japan attacks Manchuria so that they can have more nautral resources for weapons and other things.
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Japan invades China for more power and land, and 'The Rape of Nanjing' happens because so many people were killed.
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World War II starts and Japan uses that to its advantage and starts taking over Southeast Asia.
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The Japanese attacks the naval bases in Hawaii and Philippines (Dec 8) for power and to eliminate their naval forces.
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Japan has made a 'Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere' that stretched from Aleutian Islands to the south, the Solomon Islands to the west of the Pacific, and the Wake Islands to the west of Burma.
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US drops an atomic bomb first in Hiroshima and a couple days later in Nagasaki. This was in order to try and stop the war and to get Japan to surrender.