What were Japanese-American relations like between 1931 and 1941?

>>2053308
>A decade before Pearl Harbor, could anybody expect war?
Kek.

Are you really that ignorant in your own history?

>>2053308

Not great in 1931, and deteriorating rapidly.

America hadn't approved of Japanese expansionism and industrialization and their interests in the Pacific. Then, as those policies continued, especially with the war in China, and threatening European colonies in the region.

Lots of people expected war. Not as an inevitability, but certainly a possibility. What do you think the Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor was there for anyway?

Evil white Yankees oppressing poor Japan

>>2053315
American public school education is pretty fucking shit.

All the history courses I've taken in college have been about medieval Europe or the Soviet Union.

>>2053322
How much control did America have over the Pacific at this time? Was there a pacific fleet guarding Hawaii and the Philippines?

How did Netherlands and UK feel about this expansion?

>>2053353
What the fuck are you doing?
>you can only learn in school
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>>2053308

>>2053395

There's also a somewhat recent theory that the attack on the Panay was deliberately carried out by a faction within the IJA intent on sparking war. Not sure how credible it is, but interesting. The rivalries and factions in the Imperial Japanese Military are well known, so also plausible.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17110447

>>2053322
Weren't all of the warships destroyed at Pearl harbour were obsolete?