Which of the following best characterizes Japan in the early 1940s? It was a natural enemy of Hitler's Germany.
It was a small, isolated power.
It controlled a large empire.
O It had a military government.

The correct answer here is the third option.

Japan in the 1940s controlled a large empire and stretched far beyond its shores. In the Sino-Japanese War they took control of Manchuria, in Russo-Japanese war they managed to obtain the Liaodong Peninsula and they also managed to annex Korea. The Japanese expansion was lead primarily due to a need of land and natural resources as well as the wish to assert itself as one of the world powers.

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