From a japanese perspective, Why did japan attack Pearl Harbor during WW2? Growing up in the US you hear the basics about military imperialism blah blah but what were the political motivations?
From a japanese perspective, Why did japan attack Pearl Harbor during WW2...
The Nips went all in on WW2, their military leaders were completely fucking mad. Total victory and total defeat were the only options.
The US was punishing Japan economically for it's war in China. This meant boycotts, embargoes with other nations, and threats to cut off Japan's oil supply in the Indonesian archipelago. The US base at Pearl Harbor was like a knife to Japan's throat.
bomb jews == good
what a great looking flag
japan legit thought if japan can cripple all us carriers at pacific, then usa has to cease interfering its conquest business at china
then japan crippled zero (0) usa carriers at pearl harbor lol
they should have kept it, my thought exactly
They needed oil, and planned to get it by taking over European colonial possessions in Southeast Asia after the US cut them off for invading Chyna. They didn't realize that we were going to sperg out and wage war against them after bombing Pearl Harbor, because they thought we were committed to isolationism and / or didn't consider the Pacific in our sphere of influence enough to bother going to war over it. Also, we got lucky that they didn't sink our carriers at Pearl Harbor and later that we sunk theirs at Midway - if either of those had gone the other way it plausibly would have bought them enough time to secure their position before we could rebuild our fleet to counterattack
Total victory or Suicide were the only options
Japan was convinced that the US was bound to intervene in the Pacific sooner of later to protect their colonial interests. It was in this vein they decided to destroy the US pacific fleet in pearl harbour, Most of the Admiralty had visited the US before and thought of it as a land of plenty full of soft people who would capitulate easily once their fleet was destroyed. It was a grave miscalculation on their part. Personally I'm undecided if attacking pearl harbour was a mistake or not, if they were correct about the US' intervention being inevitable you might as well have tried to sink their fleet.
Factually, the US rebuffed all peace efforts and it was their known policy to completely dismantle the Japanese empire and turn Japan into a Satrapy.
All of Japan's actions are in relation to awareness of this fact and American intransigence.
Those were actually the only options though.
US was already advancing to take over Japan by positioning aggressively over in the pacific when it started to expand its influence though and they just decided to go balls deep with a preemptive strike.
Battleships were the big deal before the US replaced them with carriers because we had carriers. I'm sure they would have attacked the carriers though, if they were at Pearl Harbor.
No US carriers were even docked at pearl harbour, they were all underway at the time. Japan also failed to attack the repair yards and the fuel tanks
The main action was the invasion of Indochina strategically and Philippines militarily.
Pearl Harbor was a show of force to try and convince America to ease up on their intransigence and take negotiations seriously and accept Japan as a military power in the world that you negotiate with not dictate what they must do in their own zone of influence.
They literally had no choice, USA were smashing fuck out of them for years.
Like Ukraine bombing Donbass in 2014 and beyond.
Putin would have e been taken out if he didn't show strength.
Same with the Nibs, the Emperor would have been killed and replaced had he not gave the green light.
US starting pressuring Japan after Battle of Shanghai, passing an number of export prohibitions and embargos over the next few years
go back to your shithole, you nigger
Pearl harbor being an inside job is the jews did 9/11 of its day, even according to the official story the US government held back the declaration of war so they could call it a surprise attack in the media
Should it have happened in reality, it might have been caused by the US oil embargo in the midst of a bloody war in which Japan was trying to oust communists and restore the Chinese emperor to his throne, it might also have been one of the various diplomatic insults of the period, whatever the case is, Japan is the hero of WW2 and we shouldn't cry that it's over, but smile that it happened, and hopefully it will happen again
Only honest answer here. Everyone else is reciting the politically acceptable explanations carefully crafted from veins of propagandistic senses of patriotism and nationalism and heroism. While all of that has grains of truth to it, the United States was actively involved in colonial it ambitions in the Pacific. The Philippines is an immediate example. Roosevelt was actively sabotaging and interfering with Japans ability to gain access to oil imports and necessary supplies to wage war on China, via embargoes, and eventually the sinking of merchant ships. Roosevelt is often lauded at this big domestic reformist and he was, but he was not much different from Biden or Trump in terms of foreign policy. It was always expansionism, while the general American public was ambivalent and even hesitant to join the situation. Somehow we always managed to get dragged into the bullshit and ever since post world war two we just run with it.
the US created modern China
the entire world would be different without US winning WW2
Why did japan attack Pearl Harbor during WW2?
They lost in Khalkhin Gol - Siberia, so inside the japanese military the Army faction got weakened, making the Navy faction more prone to control the war plans, and the Pacific Ocean expansion and control was the main plan for that faction.
It's like a shounen manga character powering up an attack ready to use against the antagonist.
Why did japan attack Pearl Harbor during WW2?
jews.
Japan was openly imperialistic and of the opinion they were superior to the other Asiatic races (and arguably, they were, but they're so pacified since the defeat it remains questionable if they have any fight left in themselves). The United States was just another side of the same coin. Expansionism for resources. What we did it for and in the name of is questionable at best and dishonest at worst. Roosevelt wanted the conflict to happen in my opinion and he egged it on with his aggressive foreign policy. Still, I have to agree with Thomas Sowell on this one. You have to judge things not by their intended consequences but by the actual outcomes. The United States G.I.'s came back from both fronts and so many millions of our men saw absolutely horrific shit that it is arguable this is what influenced so much progressive domestic policies and reforms when they came home. What good things we have today in the West, can be attributed to the consequences of that conflict coming to a head and from the ashes rising something anew.
No that issue goes back to the civil war, with a rivalry between the satsuma and tosa clans, the satsuma has historically controlled the army and the tosa the navy, iirc (I might be wrong about tosa, but army was definitely satsuma)
Japan was so imperialistic that their casus belli was "removing western imperialists from asia"
Japan was so imperialist they restored numerous Asian dynasties to power
But muh korea
Korea was better off as japan, and should still be japan today
You're misrepresenting my argument. I am not arguing protecting themselves/standing up for themselves in the Pacific was a bad thing (though attacking Pearl Harbor was their nail in the coffin). But to deny that they wanted to conquer China and Korea and elsewhere is false. They restored no dynasties in Korea, to my knowledge. If they did please tell me how and what they did that was so good for them. They subjugated millions of Koreans to harassment and second class citizenship. If this view is wrong explain it.
They subjugated millions of koreans to better qualities of life
some whored themselves out for money though so japan is to blame
Also
Rape of nanqing
Only witnesses are literally US and British diplomats
other diplomats in the area proclaimed they saw nothing of the sort
I'm not misrepresenting your argument, an imperialist power claims territory for itself, throughout the war Japan claimed very little power for itself compared to how much land it actually took, period stories are of Japan protecting civilians from US warcrimes which were clearly rampant, I can also look to my own relatives, my great grandfather fought in Kokoda and he had a great opinion of the Japanese, apparently the Australian troops of the time had a no prisoners policy at the time leading to much of the Japanese acts of desperation
Japan DID treat prisoners of war badly, but this is a cultural issue moreso than anything else as prisoners of war are largely a western concept, this is the only real thing they are guilty of at all
This is a high school tier take.
No one ever talks about how the only independent Asian power at the time: Thailand, sided openly with Japan's premise of pan-Asianism and were Japanese allies.
They're just called "fascists" so goyim don't look too closely.
In the Indiana Jones game they even replaced them with Italian jungle expeditioners so the "fascist" label would make sense.
Instead of the "Last independent Asian country resisting European colonialism alongside Japan".
Embargos, I suppose, also american support of china, maybe also seeing US as a rival in the pacific, targeting phillipines. I think they thought it will go similarly to how they won with the russians in 1905, they also attacked vladivostok in a suprise attack which devastated russian fleet and then sink the reinforcements.
The US was aggressively wielding economic warfare and sanctions against Japan, particularly in regards to their oil supply. Pearl Harbor was a defensive reaction by Japan in response to the US aggression.
But also this. Pearl Harbor was an inside job by that kike FDR who was salivating to enter WW2 to please his jewish masters.
Japan has terrible face culture issues and is barely able to function within systems of modernity. It also has a culture of throwing problems under the bus, and is very accommodating to power, and very comfortable with violence and evil.
That doesn't mean Japan was malicious.
Most Japanese were convinced, sincerely convinced, they were trying to help Koreans.
Koreans for their part were and still are turbo-sperg gook niggers. Just, violent, brash, spergy retards. Prouder than the Irish.
Still, when Koreans got a raw deal, Japanese lacked the cultural ability to even notice or talk about it.
Most of the "massacres" were Japan lacking the cultural modes necessary to self-criticize and reform.
If you look at Bataan death march, Japan actually literally did nothing wrong.
To make himself look good MacArthur threw his men under the bus and fought them to the bitter end of their supplies. It was war, so Japan was also at the near bitter end of its supplies.
Japan had to accept surrender, with minimal men and supplies of its own, of thousands of men with no more food left, who were actually actively trying to resist and escape.
They had to get these men to the nearest train depot to get them to a camp where they could be fed and kept behind a fence where they wouldn't fight back.
It happened to be a few miles to the nearest depot.
Had Japan left the GIs where they were, the GIs would have had nothing left to eat. Other than marching them as soon as they could to the depot, the only option was to just let all the soldiers go free into the jungle.
Yeah fucking right, be reasonable.
During the march, scared, inexperienced, young Japanese soldiers, hungry and exhausted, had to deal with pinoys constantly trying to pass notes and sometimes weapons to the GIs. There were GIs who tried to escape. So they fucking shot a few of them sometimes. The troops being starving wasn't something Japan could control. Getting them through the march was the solution.
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FDR CAUSED PEARL HARBOUR
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Fdr coaxed both Germany and Japan into War
Multitude of factors. They knew they'd be starved sooner or later by the americans and their embargoes (for going in on china), so they felt like they were on a clock even if their chances were bad. They also had the historical perspective of Tsushima and the benefit of immediate gains and trying to hold them. The idea was to make major gains quickly and make the costs of taking them back not worthwhile for the US. Tactically aggressive, strategically defensive. There were other things too, like being a rising power and not getting much from WW1 (not even the equality clause) and being rebuffed by the other powers despite humiliating Russia before. They were on the same path as the other imperial powers of taking colonies, conquering lands and becoming a great power. They even wanted Manchuria to be their own wild west, but they were decades too late, since the western powers would employ their liberal order upon them despite having grown powerful before they had to apply it to themselves.
Robert Stinnett’s book Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor.
1 the first to compel the Japanese to attack the United States and thus to bring us into World War II;
2 the second to deprive the Pearl Harbor commanders of available information about Japan’s intentions; and
3 the third an attempt, which still persists, to keep pre-attack information from the public.
FDR and his backers wanted war with Germany and Japan, to make the USA the world hegemon.
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basically after the sino-japanese war the japs considered themselves equals with the europeans, but they were still treated as a second class nation in the post-ww1 diplomacy which made them pissy. they decided that they would force white people to respect them by conquering the rest of asia. invading china was a no no though for america and we stopped selling them oil which they needed to keep invading. at that point they had two options. one was to attack the russians with support from their nazi allies and try to capture oil fields in siberia. the other was to invade indonesia and steal the oil there from the bongs and the dutch. the problem there was that the philippines were in the way, and they were afraid that america would intervene to save the yuroniggers. their military leadership was split between the two options, but then hitler fucked it up by signing the molotov-ribbentrop pact which made the sea plan the only option. the jap navy leadership had been against the plan because they knew it wasn't possible to win a war with america, so they would only agree to go along with it with the pearl harbor sneak attack, which they saw as their only chance of avoiding a protracted war.
if they wanted our oil they could have stopped invading manchuria at any time. we probably would have even let them keep korea and the other territory they had already stolen.
no their best option would have been to go around the philippines and ignore the us completely.
When one guy escaped from custody in the Philippines and returned to the US in 1944, the war in the Pacific was very unpopular and the American public was over it.
The "Bataan Death March" was pure "Bucha massacre" bullshit to get the public riled up to keep fighting. So, when the war ended IN SPITE of Nanjing and the other Japanese crimes, of like 12 war criminals ever persecuted, specifically ONE of them was the Philippines invasion general. He literally said, "What did I do?" when he was informed he would be on trial.
They had to have "accountability" for the "death march" because it was important propaganda in the final war push.
That's all this shit is.
Though, like I said, Japanese were pieces of shit plenty of times.
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There was a minimal force in the Philippines and a minimal force was sent to displace it.
Keeping those island out of being an easy build up location and having them for peace negotiations as something to return made perfect sense.
The Japanese just fucked up in that they knew the US was intransigent, but they assumed that more reasonable heads existed. They were right, there were plenty of cool heads in Washington. Just Franklin's Jew administration had that shit on lock down.
Japan was half fooled by the democracy bullshit and didn't realize just how corrupt the US was but they learned.
then hitler fucked it up by signing the molotov-ribbentrop pact which made the sea plan the only option
you are completely mixing up your timetables
the pearl harbor attack was after the german invasion of the soviet union
Thailand was effectively bullied into becoming a Japanese ally as they wanted to be neutral. Japan invaded them and forced them to capitulate and accept joining the Axis. Their reward was that they could expand their borders at the expense of their neighbors. Hardly anti-imperialist.
And the leader of Thailand at the time Plaek “Phibun” Phibunsongkhram was pretty openly fascist.
Phibun became the third Prime Minister of Thailand in 1938 as Commander of the Royal Siamese Army, established a de facto military dictatorship inspired by the Italian fascist Benito Mussolini and Irish-born American white supremacist Denis Kearney, promoted Thai nationalism and sinophobia, and allied Thailand with Imperial Japan in World War II. Phibun launched a modernization campaign known as the Thai Cultural Revolution that included a series of cultural mandates, changing the country's name from "Siam" to "Thailand", and promotion of the common Thai language.
any plan that involved war with america had a 0% chance of success. their only possible option that could have actually worked was to just bypass the philippines and hope that fdr wouldn't false flag an attack to start a war anyway, because without an attack the american populace would never support entering the war.
the planning was going on years in advance of the actual attack.
It was all a ruse
the planning was going on years in advance of the actual attack.
so, you do stupid shit because you once planned for it even though reality had completely changed?
where did you read this nonsense?
just like germany, japan was comped from the beginning. they had the Fugu Plan to relocate jews to manchuria. people talk about how le based the japanese were in ww2 but fail to see the 6-million pound elephant in the corner
where did you read this nonsense?
at the library from this book
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Thailand was effectively bullied into becoming a Japanese ally as they wanted to be neutral.
Absolute allied cope
They knew the war was inevitable and America was dead set on fighting it, so they hoped putting up a fight would create frictions in American politics and moderate America's intransigence.
Most people don't even know why the Japanese surrendered. It wasn't the atom bomb or the Soviets.
The Japanese thought the Americans were snoyboys, they were wrong
invade neighbors muh imperialism
You illiterate retard who has no sense of "Against Asia" or Fukuzawa or any of the counter-imperial discourse.
The freemasons socially engineered the japanese elite to martyring themselves for the end of ww2.
Why did japan attack Pearl Harbor during WW2
White man have a big penis.
Japanese man have a small penis.
Oil/energy needs were going to be cut off by the US. It was just a matter of time.
The freemasons
what does the European architects guild have to do with this?
Japan knew that communism would take over China and that even the pitiful slice of imperial territory they took to counter that threat: Manchuria, was causing so much kvetching by arch-imperialist European powers, they knew they had to go it alone and basically SVRVIVE.
There was an encrypted message sent to Japan from Europe that was a warning to the end of the world if WW2 doesn't end. Japs were like, BONZAI to pearl harbor, americans were like here's our chance to pwn the world!
Japans invasion caused communists to take over China
They really didn't that was propaganda.
They hoped that putting up a strong fight would make the Pacific war too annoying for enough American policy elites that they could bargain a better peace deal than the ultimatum America gave:
give up your empire
give up your military
be a bitch
do what we say
don't have control over your trade policy
Yeah, I mean, its' fucked.
They really had no resources and we were strong arming the region for corporate interests.,
Lol no it was happening anyway. Chiang Kai-Shek would never have been able to resist Soviet power at his Northern border.
They would have won if we didn't have our carriers out on a random exercise.
If we had lost those carriers And if those same carriers didn't fight tooth and nail to sink most of Japans carriers at the start of the war. They also never expected us to crank up the war machine so quickly since we had never done that before on that scale.
the Germans were arming and training the Chinese before they had to choose between China and Japan
Japan was not fighting to conquer America. They were fighting to negotiate literally any terms better than
give up everything and be a bitch or America will dominate and destroy you.
They thought even if they were just slightly annoying enough America would stop being so fucking cunty.
Japan was freaked out about the Soviet Union, and Europe seemed to not give a shit about communism in Asia. The real reason Japanese generals invaded China was they were existentially terrified of communism and a certain hubris and lack of wisdom caused them to push too hard.
This is why the
even the Nazi in China thought the Japanese were too brutal
Lol, no he was a China shill and not all Nazis were like
murdering millions of people is cool and fun it's how I roll
they would have lost even if they had completely wiped out pearl harbor. we built more aircraft carriers in one year than they had destroyers in total at the start of the war.
Japan was infiltrated by americans who made them believe there was a large fleet docked. The jap airmen flying the mission were surprised to find it empty.
Also, China was firmly hand in glove with America and the Rockefellers.
German influence in China was just diplomacy and cope.
Even the US was tepidly favorable to Hitler until German diplomats declare that Germany was withdrawing from the (((global financial system))) and was pursuing maximum autarky and barter based international trade.
and Europe seemed to not give a shit about communism in Asia.
the communists in asia were well under control till Japan fucked Chinas shit up
German influence in China was just diplomacy and cope.
they send military advisors and weapons
outside of americas economic war on japan, fdr and his band of kikes were dying for an excuse to join the war and allowed it to happen
fdr wanted a war and figured embargoing/crippling jap trade would do the trick. sadly the japs fell for it and the rest is history. fdr also knew of the attack beforehand and simply let it happen as he knew it would galvanize the isolationist american people into supporting the war.
fdr wanted a war
US troops witnessed Shanghai first-hand, they had a small contingent protection the diplomatic mission in Shanghai
Oh wow that's not diplomacy and cope somehow
You're a retard just kill yourself you are illiterate
go be 12 years old somewhere else
Don't forget we were already engaging them militarily. We started the war. Japan just made it official when they finally fought back.
They should have just joined Germany against Russia and don't advance further in China beyond Manchuria.
Russia is attacked from both sides, so they most likely lose
US doesn't interfere because no reason
the Axis wins and we live in a better world
You're really acting as if you're unaware of the complete control of the Rockefeller business family over Chiang Kai-Shek it's called the China lobby.
FDR's first cabinet meeting was the New Deal. His second, in 1932, was that we needed to go to war to stop the damned Japs from rising in Asia. A few of his cabinet resigned actually.
The event is memory holed hard.
do you need an ambulance?
FDR didn't take office until 1933 anon
Like the other guy said, but the China thing was just an excuse for the US, they wanted to force Japan to open it's borders for their trade expansions.
they wanted to force Japan to open it's borders for their trade expansions.
so best thing to do is spend years slapping them with increasing embargos and export bans?
if you forget the Jewish lying media and look at the bigger picture, Japan was only defending itself against the greedy ass Anglos/Slavs empire.
It’s not a cope retard, it’s literally just what happened.
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Lmao who gives a shit. Most of the people in those territories were not Thai and had zero interest in being ruled by Thailand. No matter what you read you can’t change the fact that this was classic imperialism. The Thai military came in and tried to force these people to speak Thai and convert to Buddhism and become Thai citizens. It is imperialist. Objectively.
Yup, pain compliance would've been the call. It's still what America does today. When we decide we don't like a place like Libya and we want it to be different, we don't reach out a hand in friendship, we bomb them.
No the China Lobby was actually a HUGE thing in the US before WW2.
The China Lobby was not made up of Chinese people as the name might suggest, but American businessmen and missionaries who saw the newly formed Republic of China as the America of Asia. This would be the new frontier for American capitalism and Christianity.
Did Japan have any odds at all of defeating America? Or was it privately viewed as a giga suicide mission on principle? Had they won, would they have been able to split America with Germany, a more realistic version of what's depicted in Dick's High Castle? It seems impossible that Japan could have tamed and neutered Americans on any level of what America did to them post-war.
what were the political motivations?
somebody (not the japanese) wanted to make sure the US joined ww2.
The idea was not to win by taking America.
The idea was to win battle of Tsushima style.
Crush the navy and force the Americans to stay home rather than exploit the Pacific.
Yes, they thought they could do it.
No, they never stood a chance.
No, you could have convinced the IJN of it.
Yamamoto tried.
Tell that same shit to Dutch Indonesia, French Indochina, British Malaysia, Chinese Tibet, British Hong Kong, etc. etc.
You're illiterate and don't get it.
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The Japanese proposed that large numbers of Jewish refugees should be encouraged to settle in Manchukuo or Japan-occupied Shanghai,[1] thus gaining the benefit of the supposed economic prowess of the Jews and also convincing the United States, and specifically American Jewry, to grant political favor and economic investment into Japan. The idea was partly based on the acceptance of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as being a genuine document by at least part of the Japanese leadership - but rather than arousing hatred of Jews, the intended effect of the Protocols, they actually caused the Japanese to consider the Jews as powerful potential allies for Japan.[2]
The detailed scheme included how the settlement would be organized and how Jewish support, both in terms of investment and actual settlers, would be garnered. In June and July 1939, the memoranda "Concrete Measures to be Employed to Turn Friendly to Japan the Public Opinion Far East Diplomatic Policy Close Circle of President of USA by Manipulating Influential Jews in China" and "The Study and Analysis of Introducing Jewish Capital" came to be reviewed and approved by the top Japanese officials in China.
Methods of attracting both Jewish and American favor were to include the sending of a delegation to the United States, to introduce American rabbis to the similarities between Judaism and Shinto, and the bringing of rabbis back to Japan in order to introduce them and their religion to the Japanese.
Methods were also suggested for gaining the favor of American journalism and Hollywood.
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So WWII historian here (I am just a retard who has read 20 books on WWII). And I have thought of this question for decades.
If you read all the books they will all say the same thing, that Japan believed in the "Decisive Battle Doctrine" or that the Japanese could win a decisive battle against the USA and this will convince them to sue for peace.
Yamammoto even said that best case scenario he would have 6 months to wreak havoc and try to pull a victory out of his ass before American production caught up to him. Then it would all be over.
Now... you will never read this in the history books but after decades of study I have personally come to the conclusion that Japan NEVER believed they could beat America. It was clear to me that they saw themselves in a Melian dialogue situation. Japan was trying to conquer all of Asia when America cut off all of its oil.
At this point Japan had two choices...1. Abandon their endeavor, go back to being a backwater laughing stock, hermit country that no one ever thinks about like Korea or Vietnam. or 2. Invade, the dutch east Indies, take the oil by force, go toe to toe with America and lose spectacularly in a giant blaze of glory that the world has never seen.
The Japanese high command KNEW they never stood a chance. They may talk about the Decisive Battle Doctrine in their books and lectures to the troops but they never believed in it for a moment. The Japanese leadership believed that it was better for the National Identity, to attack the western powers in an unrelenting manner so that the legacy of the Japanese people would not be one of being cow tailed by a bunch of lazy half baked embargo that the USA came up with.
This was the real reason. The Japanese were willing to risk complete destruction like the fabled Island of Melos during the Pelopenesian War, in order to be remembered as a civilization that wasn't just going to bow down to what the western powers told them to do.
in order to be remembered as a civilization that wasn't just going to bow down to what the western powers told them to do.
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How are Jews so powerful what the hell
Basic answer is: The US was strangling Japan by cutting them off from the resources that they needed.
Either find a counter-argument to that or stick a fork into an operating toaster and, if that does not kill you, try shooting yourself in the head. Dumb nigger.
They were high on their own supply. The war against the chinks and korea went terribly well for them and they thought they could go up against america as well, at the same time.
The u.s. knew the japs would attack pearl harbor. When the u.s. blockaded japan and started fucking with their oil supply, they knew the japs would eventually attack. Why? Because the u.s. politicians wanted to enter the war and were just looking for the right excuse. Even though they knew the u.s. people wanted no part of it. So much for democracy, it seems...
“Other people also did it” isn’t an argument.
Surely you learned that in kindergarten?
I mean you joke but after santa cruz, coral sea and midway america has ZERO cruisers for 2 months operational in the pacific (enterprise was undergoibg repairs) and Japan did FUCK ALL with this advantage
Because USA had imposed crippling embargos and sanctions for bullshit reasons, as usual. The goal of USA was to annihilate Japan, which happened. Japan had two choices: either die silently or make the fatmasters suffer at least a little. They chose the latter one.
There was no war against Korea. Korea was annexed in 1910.
And the war against China was going horribly. They expected the Chinese to lose a few major battles and then quickly see reason and come to the table and accept becoming a Japanese puppet state. Having to actually fight for every square inch of China was absolute nightmare scenario for a tiny resource poor country like Japan.
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I'm not a WW2 historian but this is also what I have deducted from everything I know. Amerifats were after Pacific domination and then world domination. To achieve that, Japan needed to be squashed. They were also afraid of the "yellow danger": if Japan would annex China, it would become a superpower which wouldn't be squashable any more.
America wanted a war to annihilate Japan, but would have also accepted a silent collapse of the Japanese empire. The embargoes (not just oil!) were an act of war with economic means and would have ruined Japan in any case.
In nutshell: US imperialism was the main cause of the whole Pacific war. Japs were basically forced to take action. The US elite knew that the Japs would not go gently into that good night. The war and its aftermath happened like US had planned and USA gained world dominance. It was a plan of a century and now the Orange man is doing everything he can to nullify its accomplishments.
Very, indeed.
Whatever, they still got far too cocky for their own good.
This is the right answer.
Japan saw itself as a superpower and saw the US as a weak hillbilly nation. They got too high on their own farts.
thank you for your input, private gonzalez
not sure what you're trying to say here. fdr wanted to fight germany and figured the japs were dumb enough to give the american people a reason to fight. jap war crimes didn't budge america's isolationism at all, the invasion of china was the main reason given for the embargos.
Why did japan attack Pearl Harbor during WW2?
Because America had been bombing the japs for months before they hit back.
They conveniently leave that out of history class.