Show Japan Japan- New Threat to Universal Peace i I J jJ j c SO SAKHALIN Vt S Annexed after war wars 1004 1904 s- s with Russia In c. c 1005 1905 I S Occupied by Japanese AJ troops in 32 1931 I 1 I stronghold U J 4 VLADIVOSTOK MUKDEN A- A AI I I f- f I t t s Islands obtained b by c treaty with ith Russia In 1 KOREA J 1875 87 after long dispute Annexed to Japan in 0 ocr o er ownership 1010 after PORT ence had been gained ARTHUR TR I from China T Taken from 1001 T Russia y in war of or 1904 w ht P 1 c. c KIA OOH OW Taken from Germany in 1015 1915 during World orld L War Wa 5 I 11 1 I JAPANESE TERRITORY 7 t Hill M DOMINATED BY JAPAN Japan Expands Power I By Conquest Treaty Advances From Obscure Kingdom to Great Empire by Wars of Past 60 Years Sixty years ago Japan was a little island kingdom of ot people hardly more important in world affairs than she had been years before Today oday Japan is an island empire of population her territory has almost doubled and she is unquestionably y yone one of the seven great powers of the world I Including Manchuria now occupied by Japanese troops the Japanese goVernment government gov goV- rules people and controls more than square miles of oC the earths earth's surface This is twice the area of ot Texas and Tennessee Tennes Tennes- see combined Japan first showed evidence of oC becoming becoming be be- coming a world power in 1975 when Japanese diplomats stopped the grab of the Russian bear for the a string of small islands north of Japan Tapan proper By a treat treaty by which Japan save gave avo up its rather insignificant claims to o Sakhalin the became permanent permanent permanent per per- manent Japanese property OBTAINED FORMOSA A war with China in 1895 made secure the island empires empire's place as the great power of ot the Orient China I completely defeated ceded Formosa with its population and its great camphor industry to Japan and agreed to let Korea become an independent independent inde inde- pendent nation under Japanese pro pro- Another war this time with the dreaded Russian imperial government government government govern govern- ment led to further expansion and paved the way for lor the annexation of Korea in 1910 Port Arthur the Russian Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian stronghold in Manchuria was annexed to Japan and southern Sakhalin Sak Sak- halin hahn was ceded to the victorious Japs at the close of the war in 1905 Annexation of Korea removed the dagger pointing at our heart over which Japanese patriots had stormed for years This added the year earold ear old kingdom of Korea with its 20 population Uon to the mikado's em- em pire PROFITED BY WAR WARIn In 1915 the German concession concession con con- cession on the Shantung peninsula was taken by Japanese troops This concession was retained after the close of the world war var And now Japan has brought Manchuria Manchuria Man Man- churia churla larger in area than the entire en en- tire present Japanese empire under its control importance in m the far tar eastern scheme ma may be I Continued on Page Three JAPAN FIGHTS WAY TO POWER 4 Continued From One ODe well illustrated by the fact tact that its population has increased 50 per cent In 10 years and that its exports in 1928 amounted to And now now with the seizing of Shanghai Shang hai it seems Jap Japan is about to further extend its influence in the Orient QUESTIONS RAISED Is Manchuria about to become another another an an- other link in the chain of ot expansion of the Japanese empire or Is Japan merely trying to protect its investment there from irom marauding bandits And is Japans Japan's occupation of oC Shan Shanghai a n gesture of further aggression aggression ag ago ag- ag or is she merely there to protect h her r nationals and her property property property prop prop- erty These are the questions that have turned the spotlight of ot the world on the Orient |