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The rise and fall of the Japanese empire constitutes one of the
most dramatic episodes of modern history. Within the short span of
fifty years Japan grew out of political backwardness into a
position of tremendous power. Japan's rise to power challenged
Europe's hegemony over Asia, but, paradoxically, it was Japan's
fall that caused the irreparable ruin of the colonial system over
Eastern lands. Japan went to war against the West under the
battlecry of Asia's liberation from European colonialism. In
reality, for forty years, beginning with her first war against
China, she had striven to imitate this colonialism, as she had
endeavoured to imitate the political, military and economic
achievements of Europe. A thorough understanding of the imitative
character of the Japanese Empire might well have induced the
leaders of the nation to side with the conservative trend of
political thought in the Western world in order to maintain the
existing world-wide political system of which colonial rule was an
accepted part. They might have understood that an adventurous,
revolutionary policy was bound to result in grave dangers for their
own state and most conservative structure. Japan might have
continued to grow and to expand if she had succeeded to play the
role of the legitimate heir to Europe's decaying power in Asia. By
violently opposing that power, she undermined the very foun dations
of her own rule outside the home-islands."
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