Background to War- The Rise of Imperial Japan
Channel: Channel Blaino
Date: 2024-01-04

Japan committed some of the most brutal atrocities ever committed during the course of WW2, but Japan's routes of their imperial ambitions date back to almost a century prior. This video explores the rise of Imperial Japan, from the Meiji Restoration, industrialisation, Japan's colonial expansion and its brief flirt with democracy, which ultimately culminates in the rise of a Jingoistic military dictatorship in the 1930s that will lead to one of the most horrific wars in human history and some of the worst ever crimes committed in it.

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00:00 Introduction
02:07 World War II
03:23 Imperial Japan
4:50 Japan isolanitonism 
5:30 Japan awakens 
6:30 Meiji Restoration
8:34 World War 1
9:00 Rise of Japanese nationalism