Ultranationalism
What is the estimate of Chinese citizens killed during the Nanjing Massacre and how many Filipino citizens were killed by the Japanese during their occupation?
100,000-300,000+ (Chinese) and 45 million (Filipinos).
Where did Japan invade China in 1931?
Manchuria.
What resources did Japan run out of / need?
Iron, rubber, oil.
When was the "fall of the Philippines"?
1942.
What two groups of soldiers were victims of the Bataan Death March?
American and Philippine soldiers.
What was the 'killing contest' between two Japanese soldiers called and who won?
100-men killing contest, the winner was undetermined.
Where did Japan's resources (before the Great Depression) come from?
Trade with other countries, primarily the United States.
What were "comfort women"?
More than a thousand Philipino mothers, girls, and gay men were imprisoned and kept in sexual slavery for the Japanese military during their occupation.
What are the similarities between an overactive ego and ultranationalism?
Ultranationalism is a country's overactive ego getting out of control.
How did the Nanjing massacre take the Japanese's pursuit of self-determination to an ultranationalistic level?
Mass killings, rapes, torture, etc of Chinese citizens.
Why did Japan expand into China?
Self-determination (in terms of trying to keep their economy from collapsing due to their lack of economic growth) and raw materials.
Could the way the Japanese treated both citizens and prisoners of China and the Philippines be considered genocide?
Borderline, yes.
Was Japanese culture, in general, nationalistic or ultranationalistic?
Ultranationalistic. They had beliefs of racial superiority and they were violent in making that apart of their foreign policy.
How did militarism affect Japan's actions?
With the industrialization WWI brought, the trade that opened between Japan and the United States, and the military-led government Japan was more confident to be able to take over/expand.
What are other potential reasons for Japan's expansion after its initial invasion of China in 1931?
Answers may vary but anything similar to racist beliefs due to their own culture and influence from Western powers and the Nazis and/or greed, works.
What was the effect of Japanese ultranationalistic expansionism on Filipino nationalism?
It fostered a strong Filipino resistance movement and a spike in Filipino nationalism/collective conscious.
What are some differences between Japan's initial foreign policy regarding expansionism into China and their later on regarding both China and the Philippines?
Answers vary but anything similar to a shift from nationalism to ultranationalism, borderline genocide, works.
How did the Second Sino-Japanese War affect the Japanese and the Chinese to this day?
Due to the atrocities committed by the Japanese against the Chinese during the war and WWII, Chinese citizens now have a deep hatred for the Japanese and the relationship between the two nations has stayed rocky.
What are similarities, that you can think of, between Japan and Germany from WWII?
Answer's may vary but violent expansionist ideas lined with racist beliefs, genocide, and lack of resources that they had to get elsewhere.
What are the similarities between the Nanjing Massacre and the Manila Massacre?
Answers may vary but the atrocities commited by the Japanese soliders in both instances were very, very similar in regard to brutality.