On September 18, 1931, the Japanese invaders created the "918 Incident" that shocked China and foreign countries and began to invade China. At this critical juncture, all the Chinese united and after 14 years of war of resistance, they finally drove Japan out of China.
Japan fought only one battle against British India, which resulted in the defeat of Japan. However, after the defeat, Japan never fought against India again, and we know that Japan has been deliberately invading China for 14 years, so why did it give up after only fighting a war with India?
In Japanese history, Toyotomi Hideyoshi once had the idea of foreign expansion, and once put forward the ambition of "hegemony over Korea, peeping into China, and plotting India." Don't look at India as far away, nor have you escaped the eyes of Japan. Of course, Toyotomi Hideyoshi didn't go berserk for long before he was beaten down.
After the Meiji Restoration, Japan, which took the lead in rising in Asia, once again embarked on the road of expansion and made the "mainland policy" a basic national policy.
This plan is more than the previous one. The invasion of India will be carried out after occupying all of China and Southeast Asia, and at this time it will also meet with Germany, go north to conquer the Soviet Union, and even dominate the world.
Japan also followed this plan in the early days. After the annexation of Ryukyu, Japan set its sights on Korea and China, and through the Sino-Japanese War, occupied Korea and infiltrated China step by step until the 918 Incident was launched in the northeast.
It can be said that Japan invaded China very early and deliberately.
India belongs to the British colony, Japan can not take the lead in attacking India before it is sure, you must know that if there is no China and Southeast Asia as the basis, Japan's invasion of India can only rely on the navy, if it rushes forward, there will be no return.
However, Japan's invasion of China did not end the war in three months as they thought, but fell into a people's war and could not extricate itself.
This made Japan very uncomfortable, after all, Japan is a country with few strategic resources, so it cannot be maintained for too long, and can only focus on Southeast Asia, although Japan easily occupied Southeast Asia, but pulled the United States in.
It was only after the occupation of Burma that Japan proposed a plan to attack India, the Battle of Uber, so the Battle of Imphal broke out. But the leader of this battle was a strange thing, Mutaguchi Ryoya, the result was that due to the unfavorable leadership, the lack of necessary logistical support, coupled with the incompatibility with the terrain and climate, the non-combat attrition was serious, and finally failed.
Of course, at this time, Japan was already weakening day by day, and although it occupied Southeast Asia, due to the limited japanese forces, most of them were consumed in China and had no ability to attack India.