JAPAN'S INTERVENTION IN THE FAR EAST (I WORLD WAR SITUATION)

Abstract

The First World War of 1914-1918 was used by imperialist Japan in order to try to implement extensive conquest plans. Imperialist Japan took full advantage of the fact that the attention of its main competitors-the USA and England, as well as tsarist Russia, Germany, and France-was distracted from Far Eastern affairs by military events in Europe. Japan not only captured the former German “leased territories†in China and the Germanic island possessions in the Pacific Ocean (the Marshall, Karolinsky, Mariansky Islands), but during the years of the First World War it actually monopolized the Far Eastern markets.