Japan's Need for Natural Resources
- Invasion of Manchuria begins this process in 1937
- Sphere of influecnce across the Pacific (Greater East Asian Co-prosperity sphere)
- Coal, Iron and and rubber in Dutch East Indies
- Indo-China, Mainland China, Taiwan and Solomon Islands all captured
- Americans boycott oil to Japan in 1941
Beginning with the invasion of Manchuria, Japan's need for Natural Resources became a major contributing factor to the participation of the country in WW2. Japan had a sphere of influence across the Pacific, but it needed the Coal, iron and rubber that were abundant in the Dutch East Indies.