That's after the West pushed it to break isolationism and taught it it had to be ruthless to be respected, not before.
In other words, that's a century later...
Re:Hiroshima (1946)
by ThrowawayR2 on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @05:31PM
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Ah, the classic "But he hit me first" argument[0]. Very persuasive. /s
[0] Also known as the "two wrongs make a right" fallacy. See https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFalla...
Yeah, left alone to create the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_East_Asia_Co-Prosperit...).
You're welcome to ask the various Asian nations of that region whether they thought that was a good thing but I doubt you'd like the response.