Why did the Japanese invade China?

1. Cultural factors: From the day of the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese refused to recognize Manchu-ruled China, thinking that the Huaxia-Han culture they had yearned for and enthusiastically studied was dead, and the Hu people's rule over Middle China was no longer advanced. However, the Japanese believe that Japan has relatively well preserved the cultural relics of Chinese civilization. They have become the inheritors of China culture, and they have reason and qualification to be enemies of the Qing Dynasty. The Japanese have always wanted to be the spiritual leader of the East Asian cultural circle. Let's take a look at some excerpts from Ge Zhaoguang's article originally published in the ninth issue of Book City magazine in 2004: "Ships are constantly sailing from China to Nagasaki, and some ships are drifting around Japan when encountering storms. There are many encounters, and there are often some unpleasant things between the host and the guest. However, this is not entirely the fault of China people. At that time, the Japanese discriminated against China people a little.

2. Economic factors: large population, scarce arable land, lack of resources and constant disasters, which is a true portrayal of Japan. In the16th and17th centuries, when productivity was low, and in the18th and19th centuries, when capitalism was high in energy consumption, the vast land and rich resources were what the Japanese missed so much. China, separated by a North Korea, has everything he wants. Can he not misunderstand? As the saying goes, "I am afraid that thieves will steal, but I am afraid that thieves will remember." Let's take a look at the following investigations and studies that record Japan's economic aggression, mainly in immigration. The Japanese call it "colonization", which shows that the Japanese are ambitious. "Japanese immigration policy towards northeast China has a long history. After the Russo-Japanese War, Japanese colonial policy makers Kodama Gentaro and Hou Xinping advocated emigrating 654.38 million people to the northeast of China. However, the implementation of large-scale immigration began with the "September 18th Incident". 1On August 30th, 932, the 63rd National Assembly of Japan decided to immigrate 500 households to the Puppet Manchukuo. Therefore, with the participation of the Japanese Army Province and the Rural Soldiers' Association, the Japanese Extension Department selected immigrants from rural soldiers. By June, 1936, * * * had made five migrations, and moved 2,785 households and more than 7,000 people to the four counties of Huachuan, Yilan, Suiling and Mishan in northern Manchuria. These immigrants are "experimental" armed immigrants. There are also so-called collective immigrants organized by NGOs, also called free immigrants. For example, immigrants from Zhao Tian Garden, immigrants from Tian Li Village, a youth religious development group initiated by Tian Li, and immigrants from Jingbo College.

3. Political factors: If the Japanese want to conquer the world, China's strategic position is very important. If there is a big treasure house of China, we need people, food, money and money, then the Japanese will definitely dominate the world, so this strategic highland must be won. Later, Japan dared to declare war on America. A big factor is that they think they have basically conquered China, so they think they have the capital to be enemies with foreigners. So they have been under the banner of liberating the Asian people from foreigners. This is the best expression of their ambition to dominate the world. Geopolitically speaking, winning China is equivalent to winning the whole Northeast Asia, which has laid a solid foundation for conquering the world. Russia and Europe are in the north, India and Central Asia in the west and the whole ocean in the south. In short, advance can be offensive and retreat can be defensive, and then Japan's entire strategic deployment is carried out in accordance with this policy. At the same time, the political situation in the late Qing Dynasty was that many countries had their hands on China, and Japan was a rising imperialist country. After the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 and the Russo-Japanese War, its vitality was greatly weakened, the national war-weariness was serious, and anti-war riots continued.

4. Historical factors: As China people, especially Han people, we can't help but feel sorry for the two retrogression of China's civilization history, one was the Mongolian and the other was the Manchu subversion of Chinese civilization. No matter how many emperors and scholars praised Yuan Heqing for political purposes in the past and present, they could not conceal their persecution of China ancient culture. The Japanese, who pretend to be the inheritors of China culture, think it is very possible to conquer China. Because they are more qualified to enter the Central Plains than those conference semifinals. In the mid-Ming Dynasty, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the most famous politician (and also the most famous careerist) in Japanese history, just finished the formal unification of the Japanese archipelago, and he couldn't wait to launch two quite intoxicating "wars of aggression". Although it was hit hard by the strength of the Ming Dynasty, it was not for nothing, because the strategic intention of Toyotomi's family in this failed war was regarded as a classic by his "filial sons and grandchildren"-conquering Korea. Even at the beginning of the 20th century, hundreds of years later, the central strategy of the "continental strategy" described by the warring factions of Japan in their Declaration of Aggression against China-the famous "Tanaka Memorial" was basically the same, except for a few more words-"Conquer the World".