Why did they invade some random pacific island instead of Alaska which has oil?
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Why did they invade some random pacific island instead of Alaska which has oil?
Why did they invade some random pacific island instead of Alaska which has oil?
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Their dumb plan was to scare America not invade it. But the samurai bows to the cowboy
I just saw "the wind rises" (great fricking movie by the way), and it showed the massive inferiority complex the japanese people had towards the west.
Many of the things they did was more because of pride than from pragmatism. This made them catch up in many ways to the west wich was an incredible achievement though.
Oba: The Last Samurai (2011) is a movie to watch.
Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021) came out recently, but I haven't watched it.
Are those just a purely military perspective?
This makes up for some of the sense. Japan was in awe of the technological advancement and even surpassed the west at one point with the zero.
Also, the other answer to this question, is they wanted a Pan-Asian country. They were just as much race driven towards the Chinese and Korean as Germany was towards the israelites.
>they wanted a Pan-Asian country
It would be more accurate to say they wanted Japanese hegemony over all of Asia.
They saw the imperialism of the west, and wanted that for themselves.
Well, I guess they have been through quite a bit.
Isn't that post war Japan? The country was destroyed
Better yet why didn’t they just transport troops by submarine to the US west coast?
The oil in Alaska is fake. Cars are 20% efficient and 80% filler. You need to look at API gravity.
The oil in other places is also fake but they have other resources.
This is the actual answer, his is will give a differing reply as this is a moron board.
Alaskan oil is in one the coldest, least inhabitable places on Earth, and the US hadn't built the infrastructure to pump it out yet. Japan might not even have been aware it existed, and certainly was in no position to exploit it.
> Dutch Indies
> some random pacific island
They had plenty of oil and rubber there
They actually did invade the Aleutian Island, brainlet.
With like 5 guys. Not a full scale invasion.
They didn't full scale invade the Hawaiian islands either.
Seriously, how have you never seen this classic cartoon?
>Alaska
thats like asking why they didnt invade siberia jfl
They actually did invade Siberia too. Am I the only one here who knows the basics of the Japanese front?
Probably. None of the normies here know anything about Japan's involvement prior to America landing in the Pacific. The Japanese invasion of China is literally a footnote in most history textbooks.
You have to understand the Aleutian operation in the context of the Operation MI. Quite often it is painted as a faint to distract from Midway, but when you factor in the considerable resources Yamato put into it (a full two aircraft carriers) plus movements in the Solomans, it becomes clear the plan was to move the front line in the pacific generally. That Midway went so fricking wrong basically meant the Aleutian operation was just kind of sitting there, the only gains of the operation but meaning sweet frick all strategically. Basically it was a weird quirk of an absolutely fricked operation.