They have a strong industry but exporting goods to USA and China.
It has a growing Empire.
The depression hit japan badly
USA and China put the trade barriers up - this put japanease people into crisis - they couldnt afford to feed their people
Army leaders decided to build up the japanease empire by force.
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1930s
They claimed that chinease soliders had sabataged the south manchurian raliways (that japan owned) - they retaliated by over running Manchuria, throwing out all chinease forces.
They set up 'Manchkuo' - a puppet government in manchuria
Later that year japanease planes and gunships bombed Shang hai.
The Army ignored the Japanease civilians orders to stop
China appealed to the LON but japan argued that as China had no goverment they invaded to settle a small difficulty
After a while the LON came back with a report stating Japan had acted unlawfully.
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