Was japan going to bomb us after Pearl Harbor?

Answer 1

It is an interesting question.

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese pursued an aggressive campaign against U.S. territories in Asia, but they never struck directly at continental U.S.

There is some speculation that they planned to return and capture Pearl Harbor, providing an advance base, but the likelihood of Japan being able to conquer the United States would have been very small. Isorouko Yamamoto cautioned the Japanese government that the United States would quickly be able to bounce back from their defeat at Pearl Harbor, and that the Japanese should instead concentrate on solidifying their holdings to make the Americans consider total war too dear to pursue.

At any rate, towards the later stages of the war, the Japanese used small balloons to send explosives over the Pacific, and there were even plans to use a Plague-filled biological weapon on a major U.S. city, but these plans were vetoed with the expectations that if used the resulting American rage would ensure Japan's total annihilation.