Последствия милитаристских устремлений Японии на Дальнем Востоке

This article discusses the militarist aspirations of Japan before the second world war, aimed at capturing the countries United States and British colonies, the occupation of Northeastern China and Mongolia and Manchuria to use as a springboard for an attack on the USSR. For this reason, the subject of the research theme of this article is to identify the causes of Japanese aggression in the far East; the object of the study is to identify the effects of Japan's militarist ambition. Methodological principles based on Historicism and scientific objectivity. While working on the article author has calculated the possible use along with knowledge of general scientific methods, use of special methods used in both history and other related sciences (public and social): research method, the method of reconstruction, survey method, critical approach. When writing an article, the author relied on both archival sources and domestic researchers - new work and literature of the Soviet period. The author finds that the relevance of this article is to study topicality, as wounds received as a result of the second world war in the far East has not yet passed, still alive as the victims of Japanese aggression and their tormentor, alive and former Japanese prisoners of war and, perhaps, the participants in the fighting, as well as witnesses and eyewitnesses of the captivity.