Why didn't Japan annex Siberia during the Russian Civil War?
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Date: 2023-03-19
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Paul
Japan wasn't really fully committed into war unlike Germany, Japanese official's was actually shock when the army force Japan to went war with China. Then many Prime Minister of Japan who oppose the military was assassinated. Also Japanese voted for liberalized and doesn't vote for militaristic politicians. That's why even Japan has still 5 million strong Army in Mainland Japan and has still functioning air force and can defend their island longer. The fact that Japan has still Millions outside of Japan that still occupied many territories.
Even if Japan had brutal history during WW2. Because of Japan occupation and putting puppet government that being lead by the locals. Ar the prime reason why nationalism and independence sprang in South East Asia.
Without WW2 there is no possible way that decolonization would occur.
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Japan wasn't really fully committed into war unlike Germany, Japanese official's was actually shock when the army force Japan to went war with China. Then many Prime Minister of Japan who oppose the military was assassinated. Also Japanese voted for liberalized and doesn't vote for militaristic politicians. That's why even Japan has still 5 million strong Army in Mainland Japan and has still functioning air force and can defend their island longer. The fact that Japan has still Millions outside of Japan that still occupied many territories.
Even if Japan had brutal history during WW2. Because of Japan occupation and putting puppet government that being lead by the locals. Ar the prime reason why nationalism and independence sprang in South East Asia.
Without WW2 there is no possible way that decolonization would occur.
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Dennis
I suspect that one of the most politically powerful groups in Japan, that being the IJN and its supporting industrialists, would have bitterly opposed the occupation of Siberia. It would have regarded aland war with the Soviet union as an existential threat, to the IJN. You can't bomb pearl harbor with tanks and you can't reach lake baikal with battleships. Japan didn't have the resources to build massive numbers of both. Committing Japan to a land war with the Soviet union would have ensured the ascendancy of the army and reduced the navy to a coastal defense force. No battleships or aircraft carriers. Land based naval aircraft and patrol craft only.
What fleet admiral wants to fly his flag from a patrol boat?
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I suspect that one of the most politically powerful groups in Japan, that being the IJN and its supporting industrialists, would have bitterly opposed the occupation of Siberia. It would have regarded aland war with the Soviet union as an existential threat, to the IJN. You can't bomb pearl harbor with tanks and you can't reach lake baikal with battleships. Japan didn't have the resources to build massive numbers of both. Committing Japan to a land war with the Soviet union would have ensured the ascendancy of the army and reduced the navy to a coastal defense force. No battleships or aircraft carriers. Land based naval aircraft and patrol craft only.
What fleet admiral wants to fly his flag from a patrol boat?
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Taylor
We should try to stop using American to refer specifically to people from the United States (who are Americans, but in the sense that Mexicans, Brazilians, and French Guianese among many others) It's anglocentric aprobriation of an entire continent. Todos somos americanos. I realized this when I met a foreign girl in the United States with similar semblance to mine, who said, with a straight face, I'm African. I didn't think she was serious.
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We should try to stop using American to refer specifically to people from the United States (who are Americans, but in the sense that Mexicans, Brazilians, and French Guianese among many others) It's anglocentric aprobriation of an entire continent. Todos somos americanos. I realized this when I met a foreign girl in the United States with similar semblance to mine, who said, with a straight face, I'm African. I didn't think she was serious.
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education
annex is not an accurate term in this case
annex means two parties of equal terms get together it s a term that the japanese empire used in order to fool the Korean Empire s people
they don t use the term for taiwan or manchuria cause they were not countries in the first place
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annex is not an accurate term in this case
annex means two parties of equal terms get together it s a term that the japanese empire used in order to fool the Korean Empire s people
they don t use the term for taiwan or manchuria cause they were not countries in the first place
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How
Re 2: 47, as I understand it, Japan continued to occupy northern Kurafuto/Sakhalin (after its withdrawal from the other Siberian territories) because of the Nikolayevsk incident. But why did it later withdraw from the northern two-thirds of that island in 1925?
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Re 2: 47, as I understand it, Japan continued to occupy northern Kurafuto/Sakhalin (after its withdrawal from the other Siberian territories) because of the Nikolayevsk incident. But why did it later withdraw from the northern two-thirds of that island in 1925?
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Dennis
Ironically the oil production of Sakhalin island, which the japanese held half of until 1945, produces more oil than the Dutch East Indies did prior to the second world war, and seizing that was that Japanese empires single most important goal of ww2
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Ironically the oil production of Sakhalin island, which the japanese held half of until 1945, produces more oil than the Dutch East Indies did prior to the second world war, and seizing that was that Japanese empires single most important goal of ww2
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coolawesomeepicman
This brings up a great point to why Japan doesn t take responsibility for its war crimes in East Asia. The Japanese government didn t trust the army, and that lead to them loosing control of the army entirely after the Mukden incident.
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This brings up a great point to why Japan doesn t take responsibility for its war crimes in East Asia. The Japanese government didn t trust the army, and that lead to them loosing control of the army entirely after the Mukden incident.
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Mike
I thought this was going to be about the other war. If Japan had stayed in Siberia History might have been very different! An ongoing conflict with the USSR would have helped Germany in the next war while keeping Japan too busy to attack the US.
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I thought this was going to be about the other war. If Japan had stayed in Siberia History might have been very different! An ongoing conflict with the USSR would have helped Germany in the next war while keeping Japan too busy to attack the US.
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Bumperman
We want you to join the intervestion against commies
No thanks. We don't want a war near our homeland.
Well then we'll take vladivostok right in front of your home and it'll be only us and-
EY NOT FAIR
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We want you to join the intervestion against commies
No thanks. We don't want a war near our homeland.
Well then we'll take vladivostok right in front of your home and it'll be only us and-
EY NOT FAIR
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Matthew
I'm struggling to understand the joke with the newspaper showing a map of Ireland with the caption Pictured: Japan, can someone explain it to me?
(Apologies for sounding like an eejit, I'm just genuinely curious)
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I'm struggling to understand the joke with the newspaper showing a map of Ireland with the caption Pictured: Japan, can someone explain it to me?
(Apologies for sounding like an eejit, I'm just genuinely curious)
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KrimzonStriker
Given how things played out for Japan in the end they honestly probably should have kept it before the USSR got too powerful, or at least Sakhalin and Vladivostok if the international response was too great
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Given how things played out for Japan in the end they honestly probably should have kept it before the USSR got too powerful, or at least Sakhalin and Vladivostok if the international response was too great
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Al
And ten years later. they were desperate for land and raw resources, so they launched a brutal war of attrition against China. Somehow I think taking some Siberian land would have worked out better for them.
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And ten years later. they were desperate for land and raw resources, so they launched a brutal war of attrition against China. Somehow I think taking some Siberian land would have worked out better for them.
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Wet
Sparing the government vs. army debate/rivalry, this is one of the few events in WWI history that I ve heard, where a nation makes their choices based on regional stability, rather than self interest.
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Sparing the government vs. army debate/rivalry, this is one of the few events in WWI history that I ve heard, where a nation makes their choices based on regional stability, rather than self interest.
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Nikhil
Why is the Japanese Yen specified in currency markets in denominations of 100s instead of units like other currencies?
Can be a topic for another short history matters video
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Why is the Japanese Yen specified in currency markets in denominations of 100s instead of units like other currencies?
Can be a topic for another short history matters video
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