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In September 1905, a peace treaty for the Russo-Japanese War was signed.
This is the Treaty of Portsmouth.
The Russo-Japanese War ended in complete victory for Japan.
Russia promised not to interfere with Korea.
Russia then ceded the Liaodong Peninsula to Japan and recognized Japan's activities in Manchuria.
Russia had hoped to make Manchuria and Korea its own territory, but those ambitions collapsed.
In 1910, Japan concluded the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty with the Korean Empire on an equal footing, and Korea became part of Japan.
However, this policy was the worst policy for Japan.
This treaty of annexation between Japan and Korea meant that Japan would not rule Korea as a colony, but would treat it as its own territory.
At that time, Korea had not yet undergone an industrial revolution, and Japan made Korea its own territory rather than a colony, which led to Japan spending a huge amount of money on Korea's national development.
Specifically, Japan built water supplies, built elementary schools, built railroads, and built towns.
Moreover, Koreans originally had strong Japanese blood in the southern part, but Goguryeo and Jurchen blood in the central northern part, making coexistence with the Japanese extremely difficult due to the rough nature of Koreans.
Around this time, the United States proposed that Japan and the United States jointly manage the railways in Manchuria.
The United States also wanted to become a shareholder in Manchuria's railroads, gain control of Manchuria, and use it as a base for exporting American products to China.
At that time, China was a colony divided and ruled by Western powers due to the Opium War and the Boxer Incident.
However, due to the impact of the Civil War, America fell behind in China's colonization.
Therefore, the United States felt that China was attractive as a market where it could make money by exporting its own products.
However, Japan turned down a proposal from the United States to jointly manage the Manchuria Railway, which led to conflict between Japan and the United States.
In 1929, the Great Depression occurred in the United States, with Wall Street at its epicenter.
In response, Franklin Roosevelt implemented the New Deal, which was a huge failure.
Special war procurement was necessary to revive the American economy.
Japan also fell into a deep recession due to the effects of the Great Depression.
In order to solve this economic depression, and at the same time to win the huge war that would take place in the future, Kanji Ishihara caused the Liuzhou Lake Incident, which led to the Manchurian Incident, and under his guidance, Manchuria was ruled by the Japanese military.
At this time, Britain, France, and the United States had colonies overseas (including China), and it was natural for Japan to have colonies in China as well.
Therefore, the British Lytton Commission made recommendations favorable to Japan.
This was essentially a recommendation to accept Japan's rule over Manchukuo.
Furthermore, Manchuria was historically inhabited by the Jurchen people, who were different from the Han people.
Japan's founding of Manchukuo had the implication of liberating the oppressed Manchurians from the Han Chinese.
On July 7, 1937, someone opened fire on Japanese troops stationed in Beijing in accordance with the Boxer Incident agreement.
Since the troops of the Chinese Nationalist Party were there, this triggered a state of war between Japan and the Chinese Nationalist Party.
However, it is believed that this firing was an attempt to cause a clash between the Japanese and Kuomintang forces, exhausting both sides, and ultimately allowing the Chinese Communist Party to seize control of China.
The battle became large-scale.
The battles were mainly between the Japanese army and the Kuomintang army, and the battles between the Communist army and the Japanese army were limited.
This was because the Communist Party wanted to exhaust both the Japanese army and the Kuomintang army.
Japan establishes peace with Wang Zhaomei of the Nationalist Party.
Wang Zhaoming was a representative leader of the Nationalist Party.
The Kuomintang government under Wang Zhaoming and the Kuomintang government under Chiang Kai-shek came into conflict.
Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang government lost its capital, Nanjing, to the Japanese army, but it remained strong because it had support from the United States, Britain, and Germany.
Chiang Kai-shek moved his capital to Chongqing and fought against the Japanese army.
The United States originally had a desire to make money by preferentially exporting its products to China.
Therefore, the United States supported Chiang Kai-shek's army by sending military supplies, food, and money via the Indochina Peninsula.
If US had not supported Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Kai-shek would have made peace with the Japanese government.
In a sense, the United States used Chiang Kai-shek to exact punitive action or a proxy war against the Japanese military.
The battle between Japan and the United States through Chiang Kai-shek can be said to be the true beginning of the Japan-US War.
During the war with Mexico, the United States seized the state of Texas, took advantage of the settlement of white immigrants in Hawaii, made it its own territory, and also made the Philippines a colony.
Franklin Roosevelt was suffering from the Great Depression.
Then, in 1939, Churchill and Hitler were at war, but the American people did not want to participate in the fight in Europe.
However, Roosevelt wanted to participate in the Anglo-German War.
Therefore, he planned to use Japan to participate in the Anglo-German war.
Through Secretary of State Cordell Hull, he proposed to Japan conditions under which Japan would never be able to accept it.
The US government demanded that Japanese troops withdraw from all Chinese territory.
Additionally, the US government announced that it would not export any oil to Japan.
This was, and still is, an extremely reckless proposal.
Japan understood that if the United States had not supported Chiang Kai-shek in Chongqing via Indochina, the war in China would have ended in peace.
However, This reckless proposal by the United States was a de facto declaration of war against Japan.
Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe was making diplomatic efforts to avoid war with the United States, but in response to America's strong stance, Konoe realized that America's true intention was to go to war with Japan, and Konoe left the government.
Then, in order to respond to the war initiated by the United States, Japan changed its government and established a cabinet to carry out the Japan-US war.
This was the Hideki Tojo cabinet.
Hideki Tojo was a military man, so he had a duty to protect Japan if it was attacked by a foreign country.
Hideki Tojo himself had no desire for war.
However, since the United States had started a war at China , Tojo had no choice but to assume the role of the war cabinet.
Hideki Tojo was a complete pacifist, but as America strongly craved war, he had no choice but to go to war for self-defense.
Although war with the United States and Britain was inevitable, the Japanese government devised a strategy to go to war only with Britain, without provoking the United States as much as possible.
However, Isoroku Yamamoto was against it.
Isoroku Yamamoto wanted war with America.
There are rumors that Isoroku Yamamoto had secret communications with the American government.
Yamamoto opposed the Japanese government's plan to fight Britain and the Netherlands instead of the United States, and devised Operation Pearl Harbor, which he convinced the Japanese government to approve.
However, Operation Pearl Harbor ended in a huge failure.
In the attack on Pearl Harbor, America's most advanced battleships, including the USS North Carolina and the USS Washington, were unharmed.
There were also no American aircraft carriers such as Enterprise and Yorktown.
There was no damage to the American aircraft carrier.
Hawaii's oil, food stores, and military facilities were also unharmed.
In other words, Operation Haiwa achieved no results for Japan other than sinking an old World War I battleship.
Not only that, but this led to America opening a war against Japan and Germany.
In this way, Japan became an instrument of America's desire to make China its own market.
Also, Japan was used as a tool to fulfill America's desire to escape from the Great Depression due to the war.
One notable feature of the war was the bombing of Japanese homes with incendiary napalm bombs by American Boeing B-29s.
This was intended to be a genocide of children, women, and the elderly, and one million Japanese women and children were actually killed.
This is the true historical fact of the Japan-US War.
