Document 1 Document 2 JAPANESE IMPERIALISM ... But it is not only the question of land shortage and overpopulation that weigh heavily upon Japan. Equally depressing is the fact that she has not within her own confines adequate mineral resources essential to modern industry. She depends almost entirely upon foreign countries for iron ores. Of coal she has little that can be used in the steel industry. But the most serious handicap is the lack of petroleum, a material which is becoming more and more important in transportation and in manufacturing industries. If you watch the chessboard of European and American diplomacy, you cannot fail to see how each nation is trying to outwit the other in gaining control of oil resources in different parts of the world. And here is Japan, struggling to solve, partly at least, her population problem by becoming an industrial and trading nation, and yet harassed by the lack of three essential materials of industry-oil, iron, and coal. -Source: K.K. Kawakami, "A Japanese Liberal View" The Nation, November 9, 1921 1853-54 End of Ater 187 Cuar and sou conservat 1894-0 Sno Japure w 1904-05: Ran Japunme Wa holat 18 M Industri lon 1902 Aliurce with Brtain 1910 A on of Ke treme naonalum 3. Identify and explain a cause-and-effect relationship associated with the Japanese imperialism in documents 1 and 2. Be sure to use evidence from both documents 1 and 2 in your response.
Document 1 Document 2 JAPANESE IMPERIALISM ... But it is not only the question of land shortage and overpopulation that weigh heavily upon Japan. Equally depressing is the fact that she has not within her own confines adequate mineral resources essential to modern industry. She depends almost entirely upon foreign countries for iron ores. Of coal she has little that can be used in the steel industry. But the most serious handicap is the lack of petroleum, a material which is becoming more and more important in transportation and in manufacturing industries. If you watch the chessboard of European and American diplomacy, you cannot fail to see how each nation is trying to outwit the other in gaining control of oil resources in different parts of the world. And here is Japan, struggling to solve, partly at least, her population problem by becoming an industrial and trading nation, and yet harassed by the lack of three essential materials of industry-oil, iron, and coal. -Source: K.K. Kawakami, "A Japanese Liberal View" The Nation, November 9, 1921 1853-54 End of Ater 187 Cuar and sou conservat 1894-0 Sno Japure w 1904-05: Ran Japunme Wa holat 18 M Industri lon 1902 Aliurce with Brtain 1910 A on of Ke treme naonalum 3. Identify and explain a cause-and-effect relationship associated with the Japanese imperialism in documents 1 and 2. Be sure to use evidence from both documents 1 and 2 in your response.
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