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Excerpt from Institute of International Education, Vol. 11: International Relations Clubs; The Political and Economic Expansion of Japan
The following chronological outline has been drawn for the express purpose of delineating, in its simplest form, the course of Japan's political, economic and military expansion from the earliest times to date. The temptation has been to include many detailed statistics on trade and military budgets and treaty terms, but all these have been reduced to the barest series of hints. The student is expected to turn back to the various statistical sources here mentioned, in order to fill in for himself the continuity of Japan's remarkable development. He should also study the chronology with a map and mark it with the appropriate dates of each major development in territorial acquisition, railway building, and trade concession. Only thus can a clear picture of the whole evolution be gained.
Unfortunately, no book has ever been written on the precise correlation between military and economic expansion in the Far East. Certain phases of this, to be sure, have been dealt with in the various works alluded to in the following bibliography. But he who seeks a full understanding of the manner in which business and empire have gone hand in hand in Japan must piece together the story for himself, using trade reports in conjunction with the diplomatic and political records. Needless to say, such a task is by no means easy. But it should be done, in rough outline at least.
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