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Japan has a long history of militarism which stretched through the first half of the 20th century
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An important chapter in Japan's military history began in the 1904, when Japan defeated Russia and reversed a long trend of Asian powers losing to European ones on the battlefield. During the First World War (1914 to 1918), Japan supported the Allied powers. It played only a small part in the war against the German. During the 1930s, the Japanese military was ascendant and in 1937, Japan invaded China. In World War II Japan was, with Germany and Italy, one of the primary Axis powers.
A turning point in Japanese history was the Second World War when Hiroshima and Nagasaki, were destroyed by two atomic bombs (August, 1945) dropped by the US military forces. The horror of those events have led Japan to carefully restrict its military activities to prevent the development of militarism. |
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