If Japan never attacked Pearl Harbor, would Japan have taken over China?

Question

So in World War 2, instead of attacking Pearl Harbor, if Japan focused only on China, would Japan have succeeded it?

Answer 1

Yes, it could have been very possible. The US would have been forced to step in sooner or later due to the Nazi's quest for world dominance.

Answer 2

The simple fact of the matter is that the Japanese had to do something or loose their war in China. When America stopped sending fuel to the Japanese and the supplies the Japanese had access to were literally a few months worth. If they had run out their planes would be grounded, lorries would be stuck and their ships unable to sail. No ammunition or food would get to the troops. Very soon even the poorly equipped Chinese armies would have taken the upper hand. Also the Japanese mainland would face starvation as they were reliant on imports of for food and their industry's raw materials, no supplies = no jobs = no money = no food.



This led to the choice of an attack into the USSR or an attack against the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), which both had oil. The USSR had oil, not much was near to the Japanese though. So a strike south was the only real option. To do this they would have to go past the American controlled Philippines and America had made it clear they weren't going to accept a Japanese takeover of South East Asia. So the attack was a consequence of the Japanese being unwilling to accept they could not act independently of the US. To do this they had to make themselves self sufficient and to do that they needed war.



Samurai, please note the Japanese are not innocent victims. They attacked before they declared war, something that they have excused with the US with a story around a failure to decode something, however the UK was attacked at Hong Kong before the declaration of war. Showing this was their intention, a repetition of an early surprise attack in their 1905 war with Russia. They mistreated civilians in China, Philippines, Burma, Malaya, Indonesia and many more. They mistreated POW's. They had engaged in terror bombing in China and India so therefore, like bomber Harris said of the Germans 'they entered this war with the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else and no one was going to bomb them....they put their naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.'



Be glad that militarism was beaten out of the Japanese, it was brutal but necessary.

Answer 3

In 1940 the population of Japan was 73 million and China over 455 million, it does not need a mathematician to do the sums.

Answer 4

Japan planned on shooting all the Pacific and its surrounding areas. So of direction, they finally might have went to conflict any way with u.s.. subsequently i do no longer think of there would have been a compromise. So Japan desperate to attack u.s.'s best naval base, destroying maximum of our ships and our spirit. thankfully they ignored our airplane vendors which helped us later interior the Pacific theatre. Japan had to triumph over each little thing only as Hitler and Nazi Germany had to do in Europe. We had formerly placed an oil embargo on the eastern additionally. (We have been their often occurring source of oil)

Answer 5

I doubt it. Many have tried, so far none have succeeded, and that goes back into long ago history. The Chinese don't always win with force of arms, they outsmart, they out wait their enemies. There are just plain too many of them. The Mongols ruled for a time, in the end they packed up and left.

Answer 6

We would have supported china because of the open trade policy, we were telling them not to bother china or else before pearl harbor also.

Answer 7

Another "major blunder," Hoover thought, was FDR's decision in 1941 to throw the U.S. into an "undeclared war with Germany and Japan, in total violation of promises upon which he had been elected a few weeks before." Roosevelt's "total economic sanctions" against Japan in the summer of 1941, and his "contemptuous refusal" of the Japanese prime minister's peace proposals in September, Hoover saw as the crucial precursors to Pearl Harbor. The day after the attack, Hoover told a friend that FDR's "continuous putting pins in rattlesnakes finally got this country bitten."

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The Japanese pilots, who attacked Pearl Harbor, got a strict order which was: Do not attack civilians and private and commercial facilities for citizens, in fact reportedly there were much smaller number of civilian causalities and no children were killed in the attack.

Have you ever heard of a hospital ship in the port, USS Solace, which didn't receive any attack from the Japanese pilots.



For the US, Japanese people had to be evil and villain.

The US needed to excuse the holocaust they created in most of the major cities in Japan.

They bombed cities where most of the residents were children, women and elderly people, and they knew it.

They bombed Tokyo, they came with over three hundreds B29 bombers over Tokyo and dropped countless firebombs at first to create a circle of fire around Tokyo so there would be no escape for people down there and then dropped countless firebombs onto their heads with no mercy.

They killed 100,000 people overnight at Tokyo only, which outnumbers the victims in Nagasaki.

By the evening of WWII, the civilian victims had amounted to over 1,000,000 by these air raids.

They were killed in the name of "Remember Perl Harbor" in which only 48 civilians were dead collaterally.

This finally lead to the a-bombs dropped on Hiroshima, where most of the citizens were not military personnel but innocent children, elderly and women, at 8:15 AM when most of the citizens were most likely be outside for going to school, workplace or seeing their children off in front of their house, to maximize the odds of killing people.



Civilian causalities

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: over 300,000

Pearl Harbor: 48 (no children causalities were reported)



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Road To Pearl Harbor



●1919

Before then, the most of the Asian nations had been overrun and exploited by western colonial countries far worth than Impeializm. To improve this situation Japan proposed The Racial Equality in Paris Peace Conference in 1919. The proposal received a majority vote at the Paris Peace Conference. 11 of the 17 delegates present voted in favor of the proposal.

However, the president of the United States Woodrow Wilson overturned the tally, which stirred up the anti-US sentiment among the Japanese people. At the same time the Japanese government and the Japanese people felt the sense of crisis that the western powers would invade Japan soon like they did to most of the Asian nations (only exceptions were Thailand, Korea and Japan). This sense of crisis drove Japan to streangthen its militaly force for the self defense reason. To streangthen the military, they increasingly needed ample natural resources which couldn’t be found in Japan. That’s why they advanced to China.

●1939

26th July : the U.S. abandoned Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Japan and the USA

●1940

4th January : the U.S. warned Japan that she would cut exports of tin, and scrap metal by half

5th June : the U.S. banned the export of machine tools to Japan.

31st July : the U.S. banned the export of aviation gasoline to the East Hemisphere.

26th September: the U.S. banned the export of scrap metal to Japan.



●1941

23rd July : FDR and other leaders of the U.S. signed the plan to bomb the mainland of Japan.

26th July : the U.S. seizes all Japanese assets in the United States

1st August : the U.S. banned the exports of oil to Japan completely.

26th November : the U.S. rejected the Japanese prime minister's peace proposals and delivered a contemptuous proposal, the Hull Note, to Japan.

7th December: Japan attacked Perl Harbor.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Kind of like a snake trying to swallow an elephant.

Answer 10

yes, the chinese where too weak to withstand the japanese onslught.