Original sentence: German military forces was insignificant on any of its colonial possessions in the Pacific: just a few policemen and a few soldiers who ran the wireless stations.Japan joined the war by siding with Great Britain on 23 August 1914, using the Anglo-Japanese Alliance as their justification.The Japanese navy also assisted the Royal Navy in its pursuit of the SMS Emden.The Japanese navy played a major role in securing the sea lanes in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean for British shipping against German raiders, and a detactment of Japanese warships under British command was based a Malta in the Mediterranian Sea
Edited sentence: German ownership of these tiny islands was insignificant.Japan joined the war by siding with Great Britain on August 23 1914.Their war aims were clear: capture of the German lands in China and the Pacific.They had no military forces on any of the islands, just a few policemen and a few soldiers who ran the wireless stations.They justified their joining the war under a disputed interpretation of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of 1911