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Originally Posted by ASU2003
I don't know what happened in the days following Pearl Harbor, but I wonder why Japan didn't stay on the offensive and attack other places or send in ground troops to take over Hawaii?
Unless FDR sent the message to the Emperor to attack us, I doubt it was an inside job. Japan probably had people on the ground that radioed back that a lot of ships were in the harbor. But their tactics weren't the best in the early days considering what happened in the years following in the Pacific.
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The Japanese did attack parts of America. Alaska's Aleutian islands, California, Oregon, British Columbia. The Japanese also launched thousands of explosive balloons from the Japanese islands, some of which made it to the USA, causing little damage and only 6 deaths. The Japanese didn't intend to go to war with us, they just wanted to make a single strike that would knock us out of any war. Their intention was to destroy our Pacific fleet so we couldn't strike back. They didn't invade because they didn't have any islands close enough to do so. Their army wasn't strong enough or large enough to invade as well.
Basically, they had no intentions of fighting us at all. They just wanted to score a quick knock out blow on us.