Question

unlike other africa and asian countries, japan had a few raw resources. Why do you think america wanted a relationship with them

Answer 1

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Manchuria rich in natural resources and sparsely populated had obvious advantages for a densely populated and resource-poor Japan. Amongst Manchuria's resources coveted by Japan were iron, coking coal, soybeans, salt and above all land, all severely lacking within the Japanese empire in 1930.