Relations Between the United States and Japan Before September 1941 Ess

Relations Between the United States and Japan Before September 1941 Japan was no longer able to rely on itself for food and raw materials and, so, for Japan to survive and prosper it would have to modernise and adopt Western technology. Japan was a medieval country but had managed to beat Russia in the war in 1905. They joined Britain in the War against Germany. On the 7th September 1914, they took over Germanys interests in China, but weren’t given any credit for the war. The Japanese demanded the right to send experts as ‘advisors’ to the Chinese Government. Only 15% of Japan was habitable, they needed more living space but weren’t allowed to emigrate to the U.S while the Washington agreement stopped them expanding in the Far East. In 1919, the United States called a conference, where nine countries attended, to limit the size of the navies of Britain, the U.S and Japan. It did so in the ratio 5:5:3. The Japanese were treated like a minor nation. They weren’t allowed to emigrate out of Japan or expand into China. They ...