What was going on in japan prior to world war 2

For Japan, World War II grew from a conflict historians call the Second Sino-Japanese War. ... However, before this, there had been years of border clashes between the Japanese and the Chinese, having started with the 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

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You may have heard about many attacks against the USA throughout History, but have you ever heard about the suprise military strike on the naval base called Pear Harbor in Honolulu by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air service, the attack that gave a formal entry to WWII the next day?