Japanese--in retrospect, do you think it was a smart move to bomb Pearl Harbor? Did Japan not fully understand

Question

the consquences and the likely outcome?

Answer 1

It was a gamble and they lost. The carriers were not in port and the outcome of the war could've been different. Yamamoto was right tho, all they did was awaken a sleeping giant. In the end, the industrial might of the US would've overcome the set back at Pearl, even if the carriers were in port.... It just would've taken a bit longer.

Answer 2

The Attack on Pearl Harbor was just the way that the Nipponese fought war vast full attacks that would knock your opponent off balance and make it hard to fight back.

It worked on the Russians in 07 and it worked on the allies until Feb 1942. Japan saw itself in conflict with the US in 1940 when Roosevelt embargoed fuel and scarp iron imports. This placed the Japanese in an enviable position of being at war with China and without the ability to fight it. The Naval Staff planed the attack on the Fleet base at Pearl Harbor and the defenses of Hawaii as a way to get the supplies that they needed.

What they didn't want to see was that the United States was rearming already and that the new vessels and aircraft would be ready by the middle of 1942. The Essex was already launched a about to start work ups.

Answer 3

In retrospect, considering the outcome of the war, no.
But the Japanese were attempting to deliver a Declaration of War to the US when their forces attacked Pearl Harbor. Most leaders in Japan did not understand the industrial might of the US. Nor did they comprehend the American's response to a surprise attack.
Admiral Yamamoto was against the surprise attack and warned the Japanese leaders that the attack would "...awaken a sleeping giant".

Answer 4

Something else to think about is that if the Japanese had attacked only a few weeks earlier or later, they would have caught at least one of America's aircraft carriers in port. At the time America only had a few (I think four), and the loss of even one would have dramatically tipped the war in the Pacific in favour of the Japanese.
I think the plan was sound, but the Japanese either suffered from poor intelligence or unfortunate timing.

Answer 5

I highly doubt anyone with the magnified ego that the Japanese Emperor had would ever admit to an error ever, because to err is human and he thought of himself as a G-D so there you have it. No they would not think in retrospect and he is dead anyway. He was such a coward he never went to sign the treaty he sent his people, they said because of the shame and yet he was such a coward. And to send people to die as a Kamakazi did in that disasterous bombing of Pearl Harbor is inhumane all the way around. That would not ever be alright and yes they fully understood. But their beliefs were so insane do you get it?

Answer 6

there is not any extra suitable evil than the willfull destruction of people. Lives uprooted could be rebuilt, economic difficulty could be lived through, mutually as dying is perminant. you're saying that this imprisonment became for no justifiable reason, although; you're incorrect. the jap-American internment resulted because of the fact of an intensive FBI and CIA investigations that mentioned it became very accessible that a team of jap-people have been plotting terrorist like assaults on specific production vegetation. mutually as unjust, criminal and deplorable, the internment of our jap-American citzens became the consequence of a terrified populice responding to a real possibility from the international war.

Answer 7

The Japanese had no plan in place to occupy dthe United States. They also underestimated the technlogy and resources that the USA could come back with.

Answer 8

If you are asking Japanese citizens of Japan, you will not a decent answer. The Japanese teach a whole different story than we in America do. They teach that America started the war. They dance around Pearl Harbor. Ask them about that!

Answer 9

I know it was a dumb mistake to bomb them. not only did it not accomplish what they wanted, they miss the carriers and the submarines they pissed off the USA by doing it on a Sunday when everyone was drunk and sleeping. that act sealed the feat. everything that happened to them was in fact a resaponse to that

Answer 10

it was very smart the reeson they lost was bc we (U.S.) nuked em. but japan blew our fuking heads up