Why did Japan invade the US during the second world war?

Answer 1

Actually they did invade, they invaded the Aleutians in Alaska

the reason? they were trying to lure the US navy north away from the fighting in the south Pacific.

The battle is mostly forgotten because it happened at the same time as Guadalcanal.

i personally don't care for wikipedia too much but i included a link that gives more info on the actual battle.

ADD ON: I noticed people who claimed to know history, did not know that Little fact. Don't let small minded people get you down.

Answer 2

Another really dumb question - where did the questioner get the idea that Japan invaded the US. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour which lead to the US entering the second world war but mainland US was not and has never been invaded.

Answer 3

At the time, Japan was dominated by an aggressive right-wing political party that practiced a policy of expansion by military aggression.

It began with the taking of Manchuria in China, spready south through Southeast Asia, all the Islands around the South China Sea, and eventually Japan even threatened Australia.

Hawaii is in the middle of the Pacific and threatened Japan's new empire. They thought they could win.

(Hitler wanted them to wait, and the Japanese Ambassador to the US had just promised Roosevelt that they wouldn't attack Hawaii.)

Answer 4

Japan did not invade the United States. They attacked Pearl Harbor, but there was no invasion. The reason for this was because Japan was in dire need of resources. The attack was an attempt to destroy as much of our fleet as possible in order to allow the Japanese Navy time to capture the pacific islands. They believed incorrectly that once we were down we would have to negotiate a peace and they would be allowed to keep their conquests. This is the primary reason that the initial attack was limited in scale. However, Admiral Yamamoto knew this plan was doomed to fail and lobbied for a further attack on Long Beach harbor, but was overruled.

Answer 5

Japan did not invade the USA they bombed most of the pacific fleet in pearl harbour .They had been looking for the fleet for a few days as this was vitally important to the war effort as the Japanese army and air-force would have found it a lot harder to invade all the island in the pacific region if the American pacific fleet was on their tail.

Answer 6

Yes they DID invade the U.S. directly by occupying two of the Aleutian Islands (the Island chain that extends from Alaska in the Bering Sea).

They invaded us to gain a foot hold in hopes of setting up landing strips on the islands (basically the same tactic developed later in the war known as "island hoping").

Answer 7

They didn't invade, they attacked. Basically, the US had dominated the world during WWI. Japan was a struggling country with a ruler that wanted to rule the world. The best way to be the bully on the playground is to beat up the present bully.

Answer 8

First of all, Japan didn't invade the U.S. they attacked the U.S. The main reason behind the attack was to cripple the U.S. Navy. The Japanese at the time thought that a crippling strike against the pacific fleet coupled with the American strog desire to stay out of the war would ensure their dominance over the pacific arena. They were wrong.

Answer 9

Japan preemptive-struck us because they knew we were about to do it to them. What they don't teach in the US is why Japan was on the Allies in WWI and against us in WWII. They turned against us because England and the US tried many times to screw Japan over and cut them out of the Allied gains from WWI. In 1924 Japan proposed a League of Nations resolution that condemned all forms of racism, and it was rejected largely because of US and England. England still had all their colonies and US still had segregation, which were both obviously racist. Japan had an empire too but they didn't try to exploit the people they colonized the way England did. Instead they offered them equal rights and jobs, and introduced many Asian countries to modern technology. Electricity, plumbing, cars, movie theaters, all that stuff was unheard of in places like Korea and Taiwan until Japan introduced them to it. Unfortunately things started to turn sour in the 30s, as Mao started rising to power and Japan felt the Red Scare. Like us in Vietnam they started believing every Chinese was a Commie and got carried away, but at the time we decided to back the Commies.

The irony is Japan broke off our alliance because we were being racist towards them, and ended up siding with the most racist regime ever known to man.

Answer 10

cos they needs the Philippine coast to be friendly before
they dare to ship thousand of their soldiers toward Malaya
and Singapore