Gathered from the newspapers of the world, this magazine article presents assorted opinions concerning the belligerency of Imperial Japan and its poor standing in the eyes of the League of Nations in 1933:
"Feeling grows among the Japanese that events are shaping toward a second world war, with Japan in the position that Germany occupied in 1914...A Canadian Press dispatch from London, in THE NEW YORK TIMES, estimated war supplies sent from England to China and Japan. According to statistics of the British Government for 1932, the largest individual items were 7,735,000 small-arms cartridges for China and 5,361,450 for Japan...Japan also purchased 740 machine guns."
Click here to read about a 1925 novel that anticipated the war with Imperial Japan.