What are the differences between european and japanese imperialism?
I’d say that the question you’ve been asked has an incredible flaw. There really is no such thing as “European Imperialism” – each European country had a distinct form of Imperialism. For instance, Spanish Imperialism was based on economic goals and the use of slavery amongst the entire native populace (i.e. not particularly “developing” a colony, but just using the silver/gold mines and the natives as slaves to work in them) while the British were interested in establishing more permanent colonies, perhaps with constitutional governments (for instance Canada, Australia, and eventually India etc.) For this question, you would have to define European Imperialism, which is difficult to do overall because each Imperial power had a unique “style”. However, I think a difference would be that European nations expanded in the interests of power and wealth, while the Japanese empire expanded to obtain autarky (the ability for a nation to be completely self-sufficient when it comes to resources
