![]() ![]() Why did Japan agree to the Washington Conference? At the conference, Japan resisted giving up its 1915 treaty with China. But the conference rejected tariff autonomy for China. The conference pressured Japan’s delegation into agreeing to return to China control over the former German-held territory in Shandong province. How did Japan feel about the Washington Conference? Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes to scrap almost 1,900,000 tons of warships belonging to the Great Powers. 6, 1922, grew out of the opening proposal at the conference by U.S. The Five-Power Naval Limitation Treaty, which was signed by the United States, Great Britain, Japan, France, and Italy on Feb. What was the result of the Washington Conference? ![]() Japan’s Chief of the Naval Board, Commander Kato Kanji, was so upset that he described a war between the United States and Japan as having begun. The report from Washington of Japan having agreed to a smaller navy was greeted back home in Japan with indignation. ![]() What was the Japanese reaction to the report from Washington? Which countries attended the Tokyo Conference on East Asia?Ĭonducted outside the auspice of the League of Nations, it was attended by nine nations-the United States, Japan, China, France, Britain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and Portugal-regarding interests in the Pacific Ocean and East Asia. Thus, gaining strategic parity was not economically possible. With superior American and British industrial power, a long war would very likely end in a Japanese defeat. Japanese denunciation of the Washington Naval Treaty, 29 December 1934 The naval treaty had a profound effect on the Japanese. How did the Washington Naval Treaty affect the Japanese? ![]()
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