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Why did Japan seek to expand beyond China?

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Japan had few natural resources, including oil, so the country wanted to expand to get access to oil and other resources. As the map of China shows, China had oil and other natural resources. ... The Japanese justified their imperialism as preventing the imperialist aims of Soviet Russia

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