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While Japan and the US sought to maintain a cooperative relationship, the potential causes of friction were developing, including geopolitical issues concerning the right to territory in the Pacific Ocean, conflict in the Asian mainland over the growing influence of Japan in Manchuria and the US Open Door policy, and strong sentiment against Japanese immigrants in California. Chapter 3 sets the scene of international upheaval created by the Chinese Revolution of 1911, the First World War, and the Russian Revolution, and describes developments such as the Japanese government’s Twenty-one Demands to China at the time of the First World War, US participation in the First World War and Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points for peace, mutual distrust between Japan and the US concerning Japanese intervention in Siberia, and the exchanges between the US and Japan at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.
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Minohara, T., Takahara, S., Murai, R. (2017). The Great War and Shifting Relations, 1909–19. In: Iokibe, M., Minohara, T. (eds) The History of US-Japan Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3184-7_3
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