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These policies were implemented by Japan’s desire to conquer China as a whole. Arms and supplies were being brought to the Chinese via Burma by different Allied powers, and Japan could not have that continue. Japan puts lots of pressure on Great Britain to close the “Burma road” and they also applied pressure to the French authorities to allow the Japanese to stay there so they could deny China shipments. This greatly helped Japan’s war effort, allowing them to drain China of their resources and making them even more depleted of strength.

There were 6,000 Japanese soldier stationed within Indochina, but it fluctuated at times and coming in and out there was a grand total of 25,000 soldiers in flow between Japan and Indochina. This killed the morale throughout the lands as the Indochinese were being occupied and could not actually control anything, and the Chinese were given less amounts of supplies making their task of repelling the Japanese even more difficult. This disheartened the resistance to Japanese armies that were practically crippling everything including much of Asia. The Japanese regarded the Indochinese as inferior which was reflected in the way that they dealt with them. This invasion dulled the spirit of the Chinese and Indochinese and sharpened that of the Japanese.

French troops that were stationed in Indochina were the reason that there was resistance as they fought the IJA armies in the battle of Lang Son. The success of the Japanese armies were key to the conquest of surrounding territories for the Japanese Empire, allowing them to move on to Hanoi and secure the totality of the shipments via railroad. After the war the Japanese left the Indochinese area and they had minimal lasting damage on the population as a whole in Indochina. Women and youth in this territory were generally left alone although lots of the women were “fraternizing” with the enemy during the time period.

Bibliography Foreign Affairs , Vol. 65, No. 1 (Fall, 1986), pp. 66-85