What did Japan think attacking the US will even accomplish?

>>2523884

They thought that it would buy enough time (6 months to a year) in which to seize the NEI and all of its oil, as well as a defensible perimeter in the Pacific, so that they could negotiate a peace with honor before the overwhelming industrial and manpower advantages of the U.S. made themselves felt.

>>2523889
This is why Japan makes terrible RTS games.

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>>2523889

>negotiate a peace with honor

They really missed the mark there.

>>2523911
I think you could say they got off a lot better than the Germans.

>>2523914

You're not wrong, which really says something about how badly Germany was wrecked considering Japan had two of their cities decimated in a nuclear fire bath.

>>2523920
And now Japan is well suited to finished what they started 80 years ago. All they need is another pretext to invade China.

>>2523920
Yeah, well I guess people were really pissed that Germany had had the gall to spark another horrible war and were scared to give them any opportunity to ruin things a third time.

>>2523934
Japan alone couldn't even take on the Philippines and occupy it effectively today if it wanted to.. No power projection, small military and the fact that Japanese culture and mentality in the modern age is not geared nor willing to to expand the military or engage in armed conflicts.

Also population growth is dismal and it's expected that Japan will be half its population by 2060. Their military potential and power is in the past and will never return.

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>>2523884
At the time, the United States was in the middle of the worst economic downturn in modern history, and was fairly close to collapsing into a failed state.

Japan assumed that the US was weak and would lack the means and political will to rebuild its military and fight a war so far from home.

Just my two cents but i believe they were trying to cripple or disable the US western fleet believing that the US wouldn't be able to recover and that they would reign supreme in the pacific

They would have done much better by simply ignoring the Americans and just kicking the hell out of the British and Dutch. The American public was not going to tolerate a war with Japan solely to defend European colonialism. In fact, the planners of War Plan Orange said that the only issue would be motivating the populace into a conflict (keep in mind that the plan also assumed Japan as an aggressor, just not via sneak attack).

Pearl Harbor handily solved this issue.

Cripple their ability to counter attack for 6 months, in which time a defensive barrier could be constructed in the pacific protecting the southern resources area (etc). Americans were considered undisciplined and decadent, and it was assumed that after a token resistance public opinion would force the US to sue for peace and deal with Japan having access to all the juicy rubber, oil, etc that the south pacific has to offer.

>>2524054
Eh. You don't know what the future holds. Something drastic will happen in fifty years. I predict a realignment of Korea and Japan with China.

>>2523914
Only because Germany was split. I'd say they got off about the same as west germany.

>>2524236
"In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success."

-Isoroku Yamamoto
Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Japanese Navy