During the Russian Civil War, Tokyo even considered seizing all of eastern Siberia, east of Lake Baikal. In the process, it took possession of the Korean peninsula Taiwan Tsingtao the Mariana, Caroline and Marshall Islands and Manchuria. Between 18, Japan fought two wars with China (1890, 1931) fought and defeated Czarist Russia in the Russo-Japanese War (1904) invaded and seized German colonies in China and the North Pacific (1914) and participated in the Allied intervention in Siberia during the Russian Civil War (1918). Significantly, the Northern Road was the initial focus of Japanese imperialism. The Southern Road Group believed that southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands should be the focus of Japanese expansion and that the United States was Japan's principal enemy. The Northern Road group believed that Manchuria and Siberia should be the focus of Japan's imperial ambitions and that Russia, and later the Soviet Union, was Japan's greatest threat.
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