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The Japanese Empire was a regional hegemony in Asia and the Pacific throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, coming into conflict with other imperialist powers like Tsarist Russia, the British Empire, the French, and eventually the US.
To fuel this fascist war machine, resources had to be extracted from feudal and semi-feudal countries such as China, Indonesia, the Phillipines, and Korea.
The first target of the imperialists was Korea. After the Russo-Japanese War and all of the Japanese subversion and parapolitical activities such as assassinations that preceded it, the Joseon dynasty was "voluntarily made a protectorate" of the Japanese Empire in 1905. By 1910, it was fully annexed.
Afterwards, northern China was the target of the empire, and in 1931, a false flag attack was staged on Japanese owned railways around key resource centers in Manchuria by the occupation troops in Korea, the Kwantung Army. China, the semi-colonial and semi-feudal nation, was powerless to stop them, as they were engulfed in their own struggles, attempts to modernize and reunify, and either wage or crush proletarian revolution, depending on the army. The puppet state of "Manchukuo" with a ten year old as head of state, became a veritable hell on earth for the Chinese laborers enslaved by the Japanese.
In 1937, this was not enough, and another false flag operation was staged at the Marco Polo bridge, near Beiping (Beijing meaning "Capitol"). This resulted in the invasion of China proper, and this became first front of what would become known as the World War II.
The Chinese and Korean people endured brutality not seen since the 30 Years War in Germany or the Spanish invasion of Mexica, and lost 20.5 million people, if deaths are selectively limited to 1939-1945. This is equal to 3% of their total population in the case of China, or 2% of their total population in the case of Korea (roughly eight times the percentage of USAmericans who died of Covid 19).
The Japanese Empire conquered, occupied, destroyed, and enslaved northern Asia for 7, 14, and in the case of Korea 40 years.
On August 20th, 1945, it took the Soviet Union 11 days to drive them out.
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