Need for raw material. Fed up with American and British expansionism into the Atlantic (Washington Naval Conference).
Stop communist aggression.
money religion reasons land and for peace
the main reason was the slavery rights
External aggression. External aggression has wide meanings. It covers unilateral attacks with force by one state against another State without a formal declaration of war. As long as the other State has not answered with similar hostile attacks, it can be constituted an external aggression.
japan was desperate for resources
Put a check on communist aggression.
Friends and family are frequent targets of aggression because they convenient, easy targets.
bombing of Pearl Harbor
buddism
Japanese
Japan's first act of open aggression happened on 1871. Okinawa was being claimed by China, which caused Japan to attack Taiwan.
Shinto
Sumo Wrestling
The chief reason that family and friends are frequent targets of aggression is that
Japan's main features are many islands and mountainous terrain.
steel and other metals ,electrons, and telecommunication equipment.
Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu