Figure 9.14: Japan’s expansions, 1875–1942. Japan colonized Korea, Taiwan (then known as Formosa), Manchuria, China, parts of Southeast Asia, and several Pacific islands to further its program of economic modernization and to fend off European imperialism in the early twentieth century.

[Source consulted: Hammond Times Concise Atlas of World History (Maplewood, NJ: Hammond, 1994)]