Effects Of Japanese Imperialism

Imperialism of the ‘Enlightened’ Nation The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended imperialistic goals of Japan and plunged the nation into a time period of instability and need for recovery. This left Japan’s land virtually destroyed, its economy handicapped and its people either mentally scarred or dead in result of its attempt to expand and control the four corners of the world. Many would say that this is one of multiple reasons as to why imperialism had an overall negative effect on Japan. However to me, this just goes to prove that the saying, ‘all good things must come to an end’, is relatable and accurate and in fact, the imperialistic attempt of Japan to control the world was actually a good thing for the nation. Under
As a huge, everlasting force in Asia, China was always known as the nation not to mess with. Being more advanced in every aspect, this nation was known to be more of the bully than the victim. Nonetheless, this all changed in 1894 when the newly arising force of Japan went head to head with the Asian superpower (‘Sino Japanese War’). As known, Japan lacked many natural resources that were a necessity if it wanted to continue to grow and prosper as a competing super power, so in a venture to gather more natural resources, Japan ignited a dispute with China over the control of Korea. Mistakenly thinking that the Chinese would have an easy victory over the nation Japan, China was put to shame when the much smaller Japan quickly overcame Chinese forces in the Shandong Providence and Manchuria. Ending the War in 1895, the Treaty of Shimonoseki obligated China to recognize the independence of Korea and ceded with Taiwan, adjoining Pescadores and the Liaodong Peninsula (‘Sino Japanese War’). This allowed Japan to freely trade with Korea and held Korea under control of Japan. In addition to this, China also paid a huge indemnity of 200,000,000 kuping taels and opened trading in China for Japan. The Sino Japanese War proved to be a benefit of imperialism in the fact that it opened up trade for Japan in China and was basically a gateway in the controlling of Korea for its natural