The Analysis Of The South China Policy Of Japan:1901-1945

Japan, not border the South China Sea paied more and more attention to the intervention of the affairsin the area of the South China Sea, when it became a strong country with military power by the Meijirestoration and tried to control the South East Asia part. As a matter of fact, some of the people with loftyideals in Japan wanted to do something in the area of the South China Sea to make their country moredeveloped during the early period of Meiji restoration. So moving to the South China Sea was theimportant the step of "southward advance". But due to the low development economy, Over-populated andStrong feudal of Japan, the development of capitalism was full of difficulties, that's the reason why Japancan not get high returns through investment from overseas colonies like Europe and America.But after Meiji restoration, Japan became a Regional militarily powers, which owned extremely strongaggressiveness. They hope to enslave the other nation in order to get the development of Japan itself. Thiskind of model was named military feudal imperialism by the classic Marxist writers. All this leat to policyparticularity in the South China Sea to Japan: savage rob military occupation and attempt to pioneeringterritory, further enhanced the base of "southward advance", Foreign pragmatism has been through it.As Japan in the Far East and had the behavior on political and military of adventure, they began tobuilt the national strategic base for "southward advance" transfer in the South China Sea area from thepolicy of simple resources plunder and territory occupation. After the outbreak of the Pacific war, the southChina sea area truly became the south and southeast Asia base connection local guttural thorough fare andstrategic defense of important chains. After the defeat of the War, the policy of Japan to the South ChinaSea area had produced important influences on problems by contemporary.In this process, there were many kinds of contradictions. The contradictions at home were "northwardadvance" and "southward advance", the official and non-government, Political demand and economicdevelopment and in outside are the contradiction between Japan and the British, USA, Russia and thecontradiction between China and Japan. And all of those made Japan's South China Sea policy morecomplexity and changed constantly. Japan's long-term adherence to the pragmatism, would seek tomaximize the interests of the state. Its national strategy of constantly adjust is to satisfy its national interests. Activities of Japan in the South China Sea area could be roughly divided into several stages:Exploration in stolen stage, pioneering soil stage, south base guttural thorough fare stage, around toradiation stage and the strategic defensive stage. Each stage can't absolutely crack, and even some time onthe concept stage from appear overlap again and again (this is impacted at that time by domestic andinternational environment), just in different period of stage, some factors take the share of main major thanthe other. In this process, the Japanese political or military all act as an important role, this is Japan in theSouth China Sea in the policy features.This thesis will start from the historical data to analyzes the policy of Japan treats to South China Seaarea in period between the last century and the end of the second world war and try to get the truth andfurther analyzes the causes, which has positive significance to know the policy of Japan during differentperiod to the south China se a and also the problem of the south China sea.