I'm trying to fathom the profound absence of any historical knowledge whatsoever that might cause this to seem like a reasonable thing to ask.
In the meantime, though: No. They did not.
Japan did try to do this to China in 1937. This prompted the US to form the American Volunteer Group to help China while not officially being in World War II proper (they were volunteers, you see, allowing the US government to officially remain neutral). Japan didn't much care for that, and started getting worried about more US intervention. So on December 7, 1941 they made the Big Mistake which was, as Spike Jones so aptly put it, "to make a Yankee cranky."
Yes, technically it was. Japan allied with Britain in 1902, and when World War I broke out in 1914, Japan offered to join the war if they could keep the German colonies in the Pacific and China. Japan subsequently captured those German colonies. Interestingly, Japan and the US were already having diplomatic issues regarding China (Japan wanted to conquer parts of it, and actually already had taken Taiwan), so when the US joined the war in 1917, the two countries had to come to an agreement to not use the war to force new concessions on China (which Japan wound up doing anyway).
China and Japan
we wered to china and they were used to us and Japan had strict tarrifs and didnt want to trade with us
we wered to china and they were used to us and Japan had strict tarrifs and didnt want to trade with us
Japan would acquire oil, rubber and other strategic raw materials and be better equipped to fight its war against China and challenge the US position in the Pacific.
China did not side with Japan. The attack upon China unified both sides of the Chinese Civil War to defend China from Japan with assistance from the UK and the US.
we wered to china and they were used to us and Japan had strict tarrifs and didnt want to trade with us
we wered to china and they were used to us and Japan had strict tarrifs and didnt want to trade with us
we wered to china and they were used to us and Japan had strict tarrifs and didnt want to trade with us
we wered to china and they were used to us and Japan had strict tarrifs and didnt want to trade with us
we wered to china and they were used to us and Japan had strict tarrifs and didnt want to trade with us
we wered to china and they were used to us and Japan had strict tarrifs and didnt want to trade with us