20TH CENTURY WARS AND THE SOYBEAN INDUSTRY
The article contains a brief introduction on the dynamics that led to the development of the exportation of soy bean, during the nineteenth century's first decade. Ways in which countries impacted Manchurian labor division is also discussed. Finally, the rising of the United States as a dominating force within the soybean industry is also discussed. Its rise to a superpower status is also provided. The question I propose to answer is how the wars that occurred in the twentieth century affected the soybean industry. Northeast Asia became a part of the world's history mainstream at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Manchuria, a central part of the northeast Asia experienced changes. As a result, Russia, china and japan fought to get a share of the borderlands. It was the development of the soybean, as a global product that led to the rise of Manchuria, China's province, as one of the most sort lead of industrial transformation. The economic influence of the crop in Manchuria attracted foreign investment to the province. The exportation of soybean to European and Japan countries led to the onset of industrialization in those countries. As a result, this led to the improving of the soybean industry. The wars that occurred within the twentieth century had a great effect on the industry. For instance, the Russo-Japanese war led to the globalization of the crop's market, and consequently in Japan the crop received cultural prominence. Moreover, the Second World War increased the crop popularity around the world. Subsequently, it became a major cash crop, from being a very unpopular forage crop. From around 1890-1940, the China's province Manchuria shifted from being among the least developed provinces, to being very industrialized.
The South Atlantic Quarterly (2000) is the book that contains David Wolff article on bean there. It was published by Duke University Press, and authored by the Duke University. Dr. David Wolff is an important staff at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Centre within the Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan. In his enlightening book, he reveals soybean's huge important role in human history. The perils ascribed to it in the twentieth century. The journey of the crop is traced back from the ancient Northeast Asia in the twentieth century. The David Wolff's article includes a list of interesting characters, including those who experimented with, despised and celebrated the crop, from experimenters like Henry Ford, to Buddhist missionaries, European colonialists, Japanese soldiers, and Nazi strategists. David explores the role of soy bean on global conflicts and its involvement in the global trade. He also shows soy bean potential in terms of its various products, including its use in the formulation of renewable fuel. The readers of the article may include critics, academicians, historians, politicians, and even nutritionists. With the contemporary and historical content of the article, the readers are able to appreciate the history and development of soybean, until the achievement of its growth in the present day.
During the 1904-1905 war between Japan and Russia, Japan became the winner. This caused revolutionary convulsions due to czarist authority. In 1931-1932 the Japanese victory caused a tragic colonialist drive. The unexpected expansion of the soybean market led to immense impacts for Japan, than for China and Russia. After the Russo-Japanese War tragedy, due to the impact of the soybean, Russia got a new life in Manchuria. Soybean in Japan meant changes in the quality of daily life. Kinnosuke Adachi says in the article that when the Japanese armies came to Manchuria for the war, they got something better than the Japanese rice, Japanese army and the Chinese forces. These were the bean cakes and soybean, and the Japanese became addicted to these. Japan was forced out of the addiction with the products and its involvement in the continental affairs in the Northeast Asia, after their defeat in 1945 war. However, Japan's yearn for power was shifted to yearn for agricultural power. The United States at that time had replaced Manchuria in terms of soybean production during the Second World War. The U.S came up with policies intended at reserving the balance in regards to the bean's market, between Japan and Russia in the northeast Asia. In 1945 when Japan was defeated, the U.S production was readily adequate in replacing the earlier output Manchuria was producing.
Conclusion
As years comes by, it is factual that soybean will remain an important element for global competition, trade and cooperation in Asia Pacific. Soybean industry has become a prerequisite of economic relations in Asia, despite its story commencing as an issue of regional trade development and colonialism. With the continuous progress of the soybean industry, the crop will be a super-food with time, since its applications in various industries and not merely as an industrial input or animal feed. With the crop being consumed globally, outside its ancestral source Manchuria, everybody should appreciate the contributions of Northern Asia to the history of world's commodity.