Japanese Imperial Power Essay

In the late 19th century and early 20th century, Japan became an “imperial Power” after becoming modernized, opening doors to all foreign relations, and adapting to almost all of the foreign resources. The country Japan strengthen overtime due to the newly advanced technologies. Technologies, such as electricities, trains, telegraphs, and a new form of currency called yen, and a new system of bank was created. Many investments were made to make Japan a rich country, such as the government continuously investing in the military forces. These investments paid off because the Japanese military forced Korean to sign and unequal treaty of their own and allow Japan to obtain its greatest military achievements, which was its victories over China and

Especially since Japan had defected a Western imperial power during the Russian and Japanese War. Instead of fighting the Western to free Asian countries, Japan decided to team up with Western power instead in order to acquire more power and territories. Each war Japan entered, Japan comes out in victory either claiming a nation to its own or changing a nation. No outsiders was willing to stand up against Japan, feared that their own nations will end up in Japan’s hands if they were not successful. Many tried to oppose and go against Japan, but fear of losing the battle and much more. Japan achieved so much impressive accomplishments after modernizing. The more Japan won, the more rich they became. Japan was rich in resources to grow its army. They became an imperial power because they had a strong army with rich technology. Japan pushed for more. They found resources that was rare in Japan and sold them to oversea markets. These rare resources includes iron and oil that was hard to find in Japan. Many other colonies also offered land to Japan and since Japan was slowly being overpopulated, citizens were encouraged to move and settle down in those places. Japan was also the first non-western nation to win foreign wars and acquired oversea territories. Japan wanted their country to be seen just as equal in power like the West because of how much Japan had modernize in order to to obtain this much