Why did japan bomb perol harbour?

Question

Real reasons only please, no racist remarks either.

Answer 1

It was the only card they had left to play after the US imposed oil embargo put a damper on their nationalistic plans.  They gambled that the US Pacific Fleet would be crippled and American public opinion would have no stomach for war as evidenced by their isolationism.  

On both accounts, their gamble failed.  The US carriers were untouched and US public opinion quickly changed from isolationism to retribution...

Answer 2

Where is Perol Harbour?

The Japanes bombed Pearl Harbor because we didn't want to join in so to say see we can get you in the war we're going to bomb your shipping spot.  

Answer 3

The actual fact of this whole episode of WWll is that although public opinion in America was against entering the war, Roosevelt dearly wanted to join the war effort in Europe.

To this end he purposely goaded the Japanese into attacking American interests anywhere, Pearl Harbour was just the closest.

It is also a fact that not only did Roosevelt know that an attack was imminent and did nothing to prevent it, he also kept Churchill informed of his intentions.

Hitler knew nothing of Japan's intentions because he knew it would bring America into the war, so to pre-empt Roosevelt, contrary to popular belief, it was Hitler who declared war on America.

Answer 4

The real reason was that the j**s thought the u.s.a was planning an attack on japan because they were based up on islands close to japan.So the j**s attacked first,it makes no sence because the war was against the n**i's it had nothing to do with the japanese

Answer 5

They thought war was inevitable and fgured destroying the Pacific fleet would buy them some time.

Answer 6

Perol harbour

you mean pearl harbor?

watch the film :D

but it was to make the americans believe they were serios abot war

like a little taster of what was to come

a threat

Answer 7

Japan had been fighting in China since 1931, and the US was increasingly boycotting Japan over that aggressive war.  When the US finally banned the sale of oil and steel to Japan as a way of putting pressure on her to cease and desist in China, the die was cast.  In order to get the oil Japan needed for the envisioned Empire (also related to the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere"), Japan would need to take what was then the Dutch East Indies, and standing in Japan's way was the US territory of the Philippines Islands.  To prevent the US from interfering in the grab for oil and other resources, Japan decided to crush the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor and take the PI and Guam among other territories.  This would not only prevent the US Navy from interfering, but would also provide a huge defensive shield of island strong points.  

By cutting off trade with Japan and voicing their displeasure at Japanese activities in China, the US made itself a target for attack.  Most Japanese believed that Americans were too soft, and too pacifist to make war on Japan anyway, and destroying the fleet at Pearl Harbor would merely ensure that the US couldn't fight, even if it wanted to.  Yamamoto, however, knew Americans better, and he predicted such an attack would only "awaken a sleeping giant."  As it turned out, he was certainly correct.

Answer 8

"The aim of the strike was to protect Imperial Japan's advance into Malaya and the Dutch East Indies — for their natural resources such as oil and rubber — by neutralizing the U.S. Pacific Fleet."

http://www.google.ca/search?q=Japan+%2B+...

Answer 9

Because it was a threat to Japanese shipping.

Basically the USA were doing in the Pacific what they have now done in Europe. Placed military facilities as close as possible to countries they deem a threat.

Answer 10

Try this link. It gives you loads of info. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/pea...