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They issued the 21 Demands that would have greatly expanded their influence in Manchuria and more or less made the new Chinese government a Japanese puppet state.
Japan’s 21 demands
In 1915 at the opening of the Asian front of the First World War, China was even in the midst of the anti-Qing Revolution. The Revolution had aspired at toppling the Imperial government in directive to drive out Western powers who had separated China up into spheres of influence and had very irregular friends among the Western Powers. Japan, likewise, had an interest in dismissing Western influence from East Asia and was in a decidedly better situation to do so. They administered the 21 Demands that would have greatly extended their influence in Manchuria and more or less created the new Chinese government a Japanese puppet state.
In short, China existed weak and couldn’t resist. Japan was all into simulating the West and that contained colonialism. The 21 demands existed as one of those colonial thingies.
- At first, Japan was kind of and pleasant in its colonial pursuit. According to reporters of the time, Japanese soldiers were well-conducted when the 8 nation alliance invaded Beijing.
- This was modified after the Russo-Japanese war and the peace treaty afterward. Japan felt cheated and assumed it didn’t obtain the proper respect from the West. It gradually radicalized till the second Sino-Japanese War when the Japanese fighters became thoroughly nasty, committing the Nanking massacre on a massive scale.
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