User talk:Freckles1999

December 2022
Hello, I'm Materialscientist. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions&#32;to Japan during World War II have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse or the Help desk. Thanks. Materialscientist (talk) 07:05, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

Ww2 is usually defined as 1939-1945, if we talk about the japanese expansion in the 1930s shouldn't we say ww2 and not ww1. Freckles1999 (talk) 07:28, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
 * The sentence you changed read "The Empire of Japan had been expanding its territory since before World War I", which is correct. Japan won a war against Russia in 1905, and had been expanding since then. Although the article is about WWII, the section is called Prelude. Materialscientist (talk) 07:32, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

If that's the case, shouldn't the prelude also include those territorial expansions to avoid confusion and add context?

Also, why stop at the 1905 war, the Japanese expansion can be traced back even further. The first notable expansion were the Ryukyu Islands which was incorporated by Japan in 1879. Then you have the Sino-Japanese War in 1894 which resulted in Formosa, the Pescadores Islands, and the Liaotung Peninsula to be taken by Japan. Shouldn't the expansion be prior to the first sino-Japanese war? Freckles1999 (talk) 07:45, 14 December 2022 (UTC)