Japan

Japan is a country with limited space and limited natural resources. In order to acquire these natural resources, they did as other countries did in the early 20th century. Japan was looking to dominate their Asian neighbors. Under the guise of Asian brotherhood, Japan started to look at China for territory.
History shows that what the Japanese did was wrong. History does not criticize so much what western powers were doing to Japan for so long before Pearl Harbor. Western powers took heavy advantages of Asian countries such as China and Japan. The Japanese could not even get equal racial status recognition at the Paris Peace Conference.
Japan was looking to expand and make 'Asia for Asians". This goes into the same school of thought as Hitler with his German leaving space idea. The Japanese did also see themselves as the superior race in Asia as well. Like Hitler's superior race idea, the Japanese dominance did last long either.
Japan today is an economic but this time it is because their lack of natural resources has made them highly efficient. Their dominance has come more in a peaceful way. A peaceful way that helps those residents of western countries in a more mutual way than those western countries would have done for Japan in the early 19th and 20th century.