>>18427528>It’s only opposition was colonial scraps in Asia and the United States.They also faced the allies. Especially the allies navies. Majority of Japanese soldiers fought in China against a billion Chinese people in hot humid sweaty jungle swampass conditions. They managed to conquer much of East Asia and expand forming an Empire for the first time in their history after just westernizing like 80 years earlier. That's impressive for a nation that was considered backwards, primitive, and barbaric third world Japan. The Japanese had border skimashes with the Russian before and lost. Plus going towards Siberia is pointless shit compared to South Asias natural resources. The navy was unironically correct even though it was futile.
>>18427529>>Germany conquers Europe with whatever guns and oil they haveJapan did as well until they ran out
>and starves Britain with a fleet of shitty subsBritain had the second largest navy in ww2. The uboats germany had did have some effect early on but was clearly btfo mid war to late war and the Germans never tried to seriously cripple England after that.
>Japan has access to the entire global market and a giant navy but still doesn't succeed in China or the pacificExcept they didn't. When they started their war they were embargoed. Especially be one of their biggest oil contributor; the US. That crippled their military machine. They were never going to win against the US.