Why did Japan join WWII?
Japan attacked china and japan started WWII because they attacked china
World War II started when Japan attacked China in 1931 and took Manchuria as its colony. The League of Nations thought that it was too much trouble to stop Japan and that's when the Kellog-Briand Pact unraveled. Other countries, especially Germany and Italy, thought that if Japan could get away with naked aggression, so could they. Italy attacked Ethiopia (The L of N did nothing), Germany attacked Czechoslovakia, Austria and Poland (the L of N did nothing) and the rest, as they say, is history. You know it all.
Japan was an isolationist until the 1850s because of their need for natural resources, since the Japanese depleted many of their natural resources already. Prior to US involvement at Pearl Harbor, Japan and China were already at war in a series of conflicts. Japan also sought to gain more world power and territories. Hawaii was previously owned by the Japanese and was not yet an official US state. In a way, Japan actually started WWII because they were fighting since the late 1920s and early 1930s, while the rest of the world was still recovering from WWI.
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