What were the causes of WWII from an Asian countrys point of view?
There is only one answer to this, and that is Japanese aggression. Japan wanted the vast coal reserves in Manchuria and a little later turned her eye to the huge oil reserves in Southeast Asia. Japan ‘s propaganda promoted a Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere. One of the aims of this propaganda was to drive out the British, French, Dutch and American colonial lords and replace them with (naturally) Japanese “friends”. That people wanted to drive out the Western colonialists is completely understandable, but the Japanese turned out to be even worse than the French or the British or the Americans. Their treatment of China was totally barbaric and shocked the world.
