įollowing Japanese expansion into French Indochina after the fall of France, the U.S. It was of great use to them when planning their attack on US naval forces in Pearl Harbor. Japanese planning staff studied the 1940 British attack on the Italian fleet at Taranto intensively. oil, and likely to be considered a provocation by Japan. did not stop oil exports to Japan at that time in part because prevailing sentiment in Washington was that such an action would be an extreme step, given Japanese dependence on U.S. halted shipments of airplanes, parts, machine tools, and aviation gasoline, which was perceived by Japan as an unfriendly act. and Japan held long-standing contingency plans for war in the Pacific which were continuously updated as tensions between the two countries steadily increased during the 1930s, with the Japanese expansion into Manchuria and French Indochina greeted by steadily increased levels of embargoes and sanctions from the United States and other nationsIn 1940, under the authority granted by the Export Control Act, the U.S. Pacific Fleet, and hence protect Japan's advance into Malaya and the Dutch East Indies, where Japan sought access to natural resources such as oil and rubber. The strike was intended to neutralize the U.S. Japanese losses were minimal, at 29 aircraft and four midget submarines, with 65 servicemen killed or wounded. The power station, shipyard, maintenance, and fuel and torpedo storage facilities, as well as the submarine piers and headquarters building (also home of the intelligence section) were not hit. The Japanese also sank or damaged three cruisers, three destroyers, and one minelayer, destroyed 188 aircraft, and caused personnel losses of 2,402 killed and 1,282 wounded.
Navy battleships (two of which were raised and returned to service late in the war) and damaged four more. The attack consisted of two aerial attack waves totaling 353 aircraft, launched from six Japanese aircraft carriers. Pacific Fleet from influencing the war Japan was planning to wage in Southeast Asia against Britain, the Netherlands, and the United States.
It was intended as a preventive action to keep the U.S. The attack on Pearl Harbor (or Hawaii Operation, as it was called by the Imperial General Headquarters) was a surprise military strike conducted by the Japanese navy against the United States' naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941, later resulting in the United States becoming militarily involved in World War II.
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