Japan's Need for Natural Resources
Invasion of Manchuria begins this process in 1937
Sphere of influence across the Pacific (Greater East Asian Co-prosperity sphere)
Coal, iron and rubber in Dutch east Indies
Indo-China, Taiwan, Mainland China, Philippines and Solomon Islands all captured
Americans boycott oil to Japan in 1941
Sphere of influence across the Pacific (Greater East Asian Co-prosperity sphere)
Coal, iron and rubber in Dutch east Indies
Indo-China, Taiwan, Mainland China, Philippines and Solomon Islands all captured
Americans boycott oil to Japan in 1941