ABSTRACT
Nevertheless there was some reaction against excessive militarism, largely as a result of World War I and its bloody carnage. Even though Japan’s forces su% ered very few casualties, most Japanese still admired the Western model on which they had drawn so heavily since 1869; they saw the tragedy in= icted by Western armies on each other and tended to take the Allied side in its struggle against German militarism. When the Allies won, their cause of “liberty” seemed vindicated; Japanese have always admired success. Japan sent troops to Siberia in 1918, along with others of the Allies including the United States, to try to + ght against the new revolutionary government of Russia. & ey stayed in Siberia until 1922, long a* er the other Allied forces had withdrawn, at great expense and at the further cost of growing resentment among most Japanese, especially since this intervention came to nothing.
