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Show Japan's Imperial Ambitions Led to War Before the Twentieth century Japan's Ja-pan's imperial ambitions were restricted re-stricted to Korea, the coast of China and some neighboring islands in the Japanese sea. Japanese leaders suddenly realized the power of western west-ern armament. During the next half century Japan was modernized so successfully that the Japanese victories vic-tories over China in 1894, and Russia in 1905 were swift and conclusive. During the twenties Japan expanded ex-panded her commercial influence deep into Chinese territory. By 1931 a formidable boycott developed. Japanese Jap-anese troops were used to crush this organized protest. This violation of treaty rights aroused the world. Japan defiantly resigned from the League of Nations in 1933, when trouble trou-ble in the "truce area" of China was again the occasion fur battling. |