Yes I agree with you about the Japanese, I can't recall that I've read or heard somewhere that they were colonialists, but I'm not sure. They came in rather late in the "race for colonies". I think they were after natural resources and prestige just like the others though, and they sure di...

Hello everybody. I'm new to this forum. I have read all the replies so far and someone talked about the difference of colonialism and imperialism and said that while the US would be considered an imperialist power, its not a colonialist one. Imperialism strikes me as the wider of the two terms, colo...