What types of empire building occurred in Japan and Russia? How do those two cases compare to each other?

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

A. Empire building in Japan
1. era of Japanese adventures overseas coincided almost exactly with the
great age of Western imperialism
2. sense of urgency and awareness of population growth drove Japan to
compete for the diminishing living-space that rival empires claimed
a. external wars were a means of discipline, a purifying ritual for a
society polluted by change at home
b. soldiers and businessmen allied to advocate empire
3. foundations of an empire: possession of Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands,
semicontrol of Korea, and a springboard for further expansion at Russian
and Chinese expense
B. Empire building in Russia
1. Russian empire already existed in Siberia
a. continued expansion on their western and southern frontiers
2. Napoleonic Wars enabled the annexation of Finland from Sweden in 1809
and the consolidation of Russia's hold on Poland and the Baltic states
3. colonization of "New Russia"—southern Ukraine—followed
4. in the Crimean War, Britain and France intervened to halt the Russian
advance into the Balkans
a. Russian efforts turned to Central Asia, where a huge domain
produced cotton for Russian industry
b. maintained control and ruled by dispacing natives and terror tactics
5. in the 1890s, Russian imperialism concentrated on the Far East, where it
met Japanese empire-building, with grave consequences for the future