为什么日本帝国把中国当成主要目标？

Why did the Imperial Japanese mainly target the Chinese?

答主：Tudor Avadanei, There is nothing more exiting for me than learn history

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In 1931, the Japanese army entered Manchuria and occupied it in the name of The Empire Of The Rising Sun. Why? Because the Japanese wanted to become a world superpower. But they needed to become an empire. Although the had Korea, it was not enough. They actually were, but the United States Of America and The United Kingdom plus other big countries in Europe, didn’t recognize them as an empire.
在1931年，日军来到满洲，并以旭日帝国的名义占领了它。为什么？因为日本人想要成为世界性的超级强权。但是他们首先需要成为一个帝国。尽管他们已经拥有朝鲜，但是这还不够。他们事实上已经是了，但美利坚合众国、联合王国以及其他欧洲大国并不承认日本是一个帝国。

Also if they wanted to be an empire, they needed labour force and natural resources, which they didn’t. If you have more than 11 years, I’m sure you studied geography. Japan isn’t rich in natural resources. And even if they were, the island was to small to keep up the factories. And it would ran out to fast.
此外，如果他们想要成为一个帝国，就需要劳动力和自然资源，但他们并没有。如果你超过11岁，那你肯定学过地理。日本的自然资源并不富裕。而且即使他们有自然资源，岛国本土也小到不足以维持工厂。它会被过早地消耗殆尽。

Now let’s look at the map:
现在让我们看看地图：

Does anybody here knows where is Manchuria? no? Ok I’ll show you just in case you don’t:
在座的有谁知道满洲在哪吗？没有？好吧，让我标出来，以防你们不知道：

The circled part is Manchuria. It is very rich in resources and Japanese factories wouldn’t run out until hundreds of years (if they keep their factories at the same level). But hey, we’re Japanese! Let’s build three times more factories to try to spam battleships and aircraft careers like USA does! Perfect idea right? Umm one more problem. We would run out of resources in 5–10 years. Well China has a lot of resources, they are in civil war, they hate each other and won’t ally against us, don’t have a propped army..etc
圈出来的部分就是满洲。它有丰富的资源，能维持日本的工业数百年（如果他们不扩大工厂规模的话）。但是，嘿，我们可是日本人！让我们把工厂的数量扩大三倍，来试着像美国人一样，以发垃圾邮件的速度建造战列舰和航母吧！完美的主义，不是吗？嗯……又有一个问题。如果这样，我们过5-10年又会耗尽资源。好，中国有许多资源，他们正处于内战中，他们彼此仇恨而且不会结成同盟来对抗我们，也不存在有后盾支持的军队……等等。

And so they did. They entered China and quickly captured most of the east and the coast. But the Chinese allied and with the help of USA they managed to defeat japan.
于是他们做了。他们进入中国然后迅速武力夺取绝大多数东部和沿海地区。但是中国人结成了同盟，并且在美国的帮助下成功击败了日本。

but this is a story for another time.
然而这就是另一个故事了。

单词表

occupy v. 使用，占据
labour force n. 劳动力
keep up 维持，不落后
run out 耗尽
spam n. 群发垃圾邮件
prop v. 支撑
capture v. 武力夺取

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时间：2020年1月17日