Influence of the First World War on the Japanese economy

World War had a great impact on the economic development of Japan.Using the favorable situation, Japan has strengthened in the Pacific markets, including China, Indonesia and India.Japanese exports grew in 1919 by four times compared to 1914 for the first time in many years, Japan has had a positive balance in its foreign trade.The Japanese industry is the bourgeoisie has brought huge profits.Capital invested in the industry in the years of war, more than doubled.

Trade in the Pacific served by Japanese vessels.The Japanese shipbuilding industry has made a huge leap and took third place in the world.Development of shipbuilding pushed growth in many other industries.During the war have grown engineering, electrical industry, chemical industry and others.

Dividends Japanese industrial enterprises reached unprecedented proportions.The transport enterprises, they account for 70% or even 120%.Japanese gold reserves grew, reaching 2 billion. Jpy .. has increased the export of capital.From 600 million. Yen loans that Japan has invested in China, 220 million. Yen were placed during this voyny.Istoriya Japan only nachinaetsya.Istorya a lot to prove.

Japanese expansion in China has taken towards the end of World War extremely wide scope.The greatest robbery suffered Manchuria, Inner Mongolia and Shandong.Development- Japanese business in the Yangtze basin, due to lack of capital, limited mainly textile factories and the construction of a so-called mixed Japanese-Chinese textile enterprises.Japan captured syrevye- sources and monopolized the market.

In 1916 signed a secret treaty of alliance between Japan and tsarist Russia, the point of which was directed against the United States and England.

monopoly position captured by the Japanese imperialists in China, has caused severe irritation in the United States.Sino-US relations have become increasingly tense.

overthrow of the tsarist autocracy and the growth of the revolutionary events in Russia in 1917 gave Japan an excuse to try to convince.The United States that the Japanese action in Manchuria dictated by their common anti-Russian interests.Napravilo- Japanese government in 1917, the US special envoy, Viscount Ishii, under the pretext of bringing greetings on their US entry into the war against Germany.