What was one effect of the Great Depression in Japan? This question comes from Connexus.

1) Imports increased.

2) The ultra-nationalists gained power.

3) Exports increased.

4) The Communists gained power.

2) The ultra-nationalists gained power.

Explanation:

The economic circumstances in the late 1920s-early 1930s led to the rise to power of ultranationalist, militarists circles in Japan. This resulted in a more aggressive and expansionist foreign policy, especially in Asia: taking and occupying Manchuria (which was part of China), the Second Sino-Japanese War and other moves aimed at controlling the continent's raw materials.