2007-03-07 15:28:05 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Wake Island and the Philippines.
2007-03-07 15:32:15 · answer #1 · answered by smoothie 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Within 8 hours of Pearl Harbour, Japanese forces invaded the British colony of Hong Kong. The City fell seventeen day later after fierce fighting. Within 10 hours Japanes forces were attacking the Philippines and Wake Island (as others have noted). The Japanese invasion of Malaysia actually commenced prior to Pearl Harbour, with a bombardment of Kota Bharu at 12:30pm on 8 December (local time), and a landing against strong opposition 15 minutes later.
The co-ordinated attacks across almost a third of the globe were designed to put the allies off-balance, and were part of Japan's strategy to achieve as much as quickly as possible and then negotiate a truce which would see them left in control of much of Asia, including Borneo with it's oil reserves which they desperately needed.
The failure to sink the US aircraft carriers at Pearl Harbour was recognized by Yamamoto, the brilliant architect of Japan's war plan, as a sure sign that Japan would be defeated. Which leaves open whether his calculation that - if the carriers had been sunk and the US had been denied the capability of 'fighting back' - would the US have let Japan 'have its way in Asia' and negotiated a truce? I think in that case Japan misread the American character - slow to get involved in other folk's fights, but implacable in their resolve to 'finish the job' once started, and very ready to exact revenge for an attack on their people.
2007-03-07 23:57:24 · answer #2 · answered by nandadevi9 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Philippine Islands
2007-03-07 23:34:37 · answer #3 · answered by scottyusa1 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Japanese had invasion forces in place in Hong Kong, Wake Island and Malaysia within hours of Pearl Harbour. The Phillipines came a few days later, but were bombed the same morning.
2007-03-09 05:30:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Did Japan invade Asian countries? Maybe so, just like the U.S. extended its territory westward by killing a large number of native Americans and Buffaloes. If you call it "manifest destiny," then, Japanese moves to Southeast Asia was its manifest destiny.
U.S. westward movement did not stop in California, unfortunately; the U.S. took over Hawaii, South Pacific Islands and the Philippines before coming to Japan to open its ports by force for nothing but U.S. interests in Asia. Great Britain colonized India and Burma, and downed Chinese dynasty. France took over Indo-China Peninsula. Spain occupied the Philippins before the U.S. Hollands colonized Indonesia.
All over the Southeast Asian countries were victimized by the Western Powers by the end of the 19th century. Wasn't that "invasion"? Wasn't that "imperialism"?
Before you use the word: "invasion," you'd better think what the U.S. did in Asia in the past and what you are doing in the Middle East today.
2007-03-11 13:00:00 · answer #5 · answered by area52 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Philippine islands.
2007-03-07 23:31:33 · answer #6 · answered by Willie 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they did not invade america after pearl harbor.
the attack on pearl harbor was surprise attack and then they took off. it was a hit and run battle. they didnt deploy any ground forces they just bombed the shipyard using planes.
never forget december 7th.
2007-03-07 23:32:49 · answer #7 · answered by Dr. Atlas 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋