Soupnazi630
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- Dec 9, 2013
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Wrong and out right lies,The Japanese wanted to be isolationist, and not involve with anyone else, so were no problem.
They did not become a problem until Admiral Perry sailed into Tokyo harbor and frightened them.
They were forced to realize that unless they opened up to technology from the outside, then would be invaded.
But the US would not let them.
They needed steel, oil, food, coal, etc., from Malaysia, the Philippines, China, Indonesia, etc., and we cut them all off.
Not only did we deliberately goad the Japanese into war, but we should really not have been in Hawaii at all either.
we goaded no one they werte in fact free to trade rather than set out to launch a war of imperial conquest whicbh they did,
we had every good legal and moral reason to make Hawaii part of the US