there’s a movie offered on Netflix entitled, Know Your Enemy, the Japs.
It’s an old “propaganda” film, that talks about how Japan, a backward nation in 1900, enticed the developed nations to invest and to joint-train militarily. Japan then used the newly created infrastructure built out by foreign companies for new factories in Japan to build their own factories to manufacture bootleg products bearing the US stamp for sale across Asia, and used the military training to invade the Marshall and surrounding islands, moving on to China. Japan also encouraged many Japanese to emigrate to the US to work for US companies and enroll in universities, join fishing fleets and work at ports, and many more Japanese were sent on paid ‘vacation’ to collect intel information.
Watching the film it became textbook clear that the similarities to what China is doing now, and the two-faced tactics Japan used then, are almost identical.
In fact, Japan started down the path of belligerence towards the US in the 1920s after the US passed immigration laws curtailing a good percentage of immigration from Japan. The Japanese took it as an insult.