Why has Japan been trying to annex China for hundreds of years?

Japan has launched four wars against China since the Tang Dynasty, namely the Battle of Baijiangkou in 663 AD, the Wanli Korean War in 1592, the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, and the Anti-Japanese War in 1931. These wars against China They all have the same goal: to achieve the goal of annexing China. After Japan's Meiji Restoration, it formulated a mainland policy aimed at annexing China. The most important part of this policy is to annex China, because only by annexing China can it be possible to realize its ambition to dominate the world. At the same time, only by annexing China and Japan Only then can the nation continue to survive, so why has Japan been fantasizing about annexing China for hundreds of years and constantly taking action?

To understand why Japan has always wanted to annex China, we need to start from Japan itself Let’s talk about conditions. We all know that Japan has an effect on its territory. The land area is only more than 300,000 square kilometers, but the population is as high as 130 million, and 70% of Japan’s land area is mountains and hills. This does not count the top. What’s even more terrible is that Japan Because it is at the junction of the Pacific and Eurasian plates, volcanic earthquakes are very frequent. According to public data, the number of volcanoes in Japan accounts for 10% of the total number of volcanoes in the world, and one-third are active volcanoes. Due to its small territory and almost no mineral resources, even the food needed to survive needs to be imported in large quantities. How risky is it to feed a population of 130 million in such a harsh environment?

Due to the harsh environment in which production occurs, the Japanese have always had a strong sense of crisis. And some experts even said that Japan will sink to the bottom of the sea in more than 100 years. The movie "The Sinking of Japan" shows the Japanese people's strong sense of crisis. It is precisely because the Japanese have a strong sense of crisis that they fundamentally need a land suitable for production if they want to expand externally. Looking around Japan, there is the vast Pacific Ocean to the east and south, and cold Siberia to the northwest. Although the Korean Peninsula is very close, it is too far away. It was too small to be squeezed between its teeth. Finally, Japan coveted China because of its vast land and abundant resources. China not only had the best territory in Asia, but was also not far from Japan. After that, Japan used every opportunity for expansion to annex China, but in the end they all ended in failure. , and it has still become an independent country.