People forget that during WWI, Japan was on our side.
The, England and France f***ed everybody and ............
Only ‘cause they wanted the German possessions in the Pacific.
They were considering both sides before they decided on the allies.
“People forget that during WWI, Japan was on our side.”
People also do not realize that Japan was able to make military use of a whole lot of South Sea islands because those islands had belonged to Germany before WWI, and were taken away from Germany and given to Japan to administer under a League of Nations “mandate” as a result of the war.
They also beat the Russians at Port Arthur in the Russo-Sino War. The first time a European power was defeated by and Asian one.