The Causes Of Japan's "Southward Policy"

"Southward Policy" is gradually formed after the Meiji Restoration in Japan as a foreign expansion policy. Its formation has experience a longer period of time ." Southward Policy " as one of Japan's core ideas of foreign expansion, has played a significant impact in modern Japan's foreign and strategic policy. During the First World War, as the European and American powers are too busy in fighting to care of the East. Japan take advantage of the rapid expansion of power in East Asia as a competitor of Britain and other countries in the Far East and Pacific . After the First World War, the world order recover gradually, East Asia and the Pacific has become to the important region once again. At this time, Japan's national strength has risen markedly, but compared to Britain and other countries are significant gaps. Therefore, under pressure from Britain and other countries gave up part of the benefit of Japan eventually, in order to ease tensions with the Anglo-American. Enter in the 1930s, the international situation major changes again. Germany, Japan, Italy and other countries have been established fascist regime. Japan and Germany as a fascist states started crazy expansion. Which is worthy of our attention, Japan is not, such as Britain and American expected to choose" Northward Policy ", lane-packing the Soviet union with Germany. Even in the German army advanced on Moscow, Japan also gave up " Northward Policy " and dedicated to the south. This strategic choice of the World War Two process and pattern produced significant influence, visible research this period from "Northward Policy" to" Southward Policy " reason for the shift has important value."Southward Policy" is always the focus of academia , the research also abundant. But the results of this study or somewhere or limited to theme, no comprehensive describe what happened in this period of Japanese policy change, often caused by process and the reader's one-sided. In view of this, the author tries to contrast, China battlefield, north and south, Japan and Europe and the collision, Sue major national relations in four aspects: final choice caused by Japan, " Southward Policy " research systems. This study more used a comparative research, and literature reading method and induction of 1936 - 1941, the transformation of foreign expansion policy in Japan were analyzed and explained with historical facts, ultimately choose "south into Japan is caused by the policy of" root cause, direct reason and indirect reason etc.