![]() "The Japanese realized that in order to sustain their military and execute a grand strategy of territorial expansion and hegemony in the Pacific they had to be able to sustain their war machine." "Japan needed access to resources outside its territory, particularly oil from the East Indies that would fuel its military machine and facilitate the industrial growth needed to maintain that military and to economically dominate the Pacific region," John Wukovits, author of " One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle for Tarawa" (NAL Caliber, 2006), told Live Science in a telephone interview. The objective of the Japanese was the rich natural resources in Manchuria. By 1931, the Japanese Army had already mounted an offensive incursion in the Chinese province of Manchuria, and in 1937 a staged incident at the Marco Polo Bridge near the Chinese capital of Peking led to a full-scale war. In the late 1920s, Japan expanded its military, building a large navy, as well as expanding its land armies and its air power.
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