There were two main reasons why Japan was motivated to expanding its power and conquer new territories, the lack of natural resources and the military superiority.
Japan was desperately lacking in natural resources as the Japanese islands are relatively poor in them. In order for Japan o be able to develop further it needed a lot of natural resources, and multiple hot-spots for natural resources were in the surrounding area, thus they set their sights on them to manage to control them.
Also, Japan has reformed its military, it had modern weapons, excellent training, and large army forces. Considering that all of the surrounding countries were relatively weak and much further back in military development, Japan saw them as easy targets, and indeed they were.
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A mosaic like this one was made from....
Small, colored tiles.
One effect of Reconstruction after the Civil War was the improvement of opportunities and rights for the African American population in the U.S. Albeit a slow process, at least there was a beginning to enable the population as a whole to really address some of the horrible effects of slavery. The South rejoined the Union and slowly made progress back to normalcy. Many consider Reconstruction a failure because the changes desired were not as quick to come about.
