Third Kurahashi-Japan War

The Third Kurahashi-Japan War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Kurahashi Shogunate and the Empire of Japan from 14 January to 5 April l938. It began with the Shimbashi Incident in 8 January 1938. The conflict escalated afterward until fall of Ichihara in April 1938.

The war was the result of a decades-long Japanese imperialist policy to expand its influence politically and militarily in order to secure access to raw material reserves, food, and labor. Nakama itself located in rather strategic location in western pacific.

Fall of Kurahashi Shogunate allowed Imperial Japanese to occupied and annexed Nakama which allowed to expand their military presence in region. This also enabled them to attack pearl harbor in 1941 which ultimately started the World War II.