Why did the japanese attack Pearl Harbor in 1941?

Answer 1

The main goal of the attack was to sink the aircraft carriers and battleships, then the US Navy would not have the ships to fight them. The Japenese believed that the US would sue for peace. The Japanese were fighting Manchuria. Roosevelt had sent the seventh fleet to blocade Japan's oil suppy from Indonesia. The Japanese sent negotiators to Washington to ask that Roosevelt remove the Seventh Fleet but he would not so the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor knowing that the seventh fleet would leave their blocade and rally to Hawaii's defense.

Answer 2

Briefly, the US was applying economic pressure in hopes of hampering Japan's war in China. Japan believed a crippling attack against the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor was considered necessary to prompt the US to not venture across the Pacific Ocean to wage a war so far away from US shores.

The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor because the US was interfering with Japan's access to oil in East Asia. They did not fully understand that the US would declare war on Japan and defeat them.

Answer 3

1) to destroy American aircraft carriers

2) to destroy American oil tanks

3) to prevent the U.S from entering the war.

Answer 4

Cause they did.

Second Answer:

The Japanese Navy wanted to keep the US Naval Fleet out of the way when they went down to the Dutch East Indies to capture the oil wells.

Answer 5

So they can destroy United States warships and take over the Pacific Ocean.