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That isn't even a little bit what happened with Japan, and its sus as hell thst you would imply so. Yes Japan had been opened by force. But the weren't witnesses to Chinese humiliation, they were eager participants, and what drove them to attack the US was the US demanding they get out of the humiliating China business.
Yes, but the message "conquer or die" was absolutely clear. I'm not saying Japan is smol bean forced to do imperialism, but they tried to just resist on their own at first but were smashed and decided they will be rather the winners in the classical manner of opressed becoming the opressor. Look who and how started under a sonno-joi slogan and then those very same people became so westernized even fucking Kipling thought they are going way too far.