Japan had been fighting a war with China for 4 years. Other countries, especially the USA, wanted the war to stop, so the US placed embargoes on Japan. This meant that America would not sell steel and other products useful to continuing the war to Japan.
Since they could not get their raw materials by peaceful means, Japan decided to invade the countries in their area of the world which had the mineral wealth required to continue fighting. This meant disabling the US Pacific Fleet in Hawaii and all US forces in the Philippines.
America attacked Japan because of the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. America was talking to Japan about peace when this occured and afterwards the U.S. launched a sneak attack on Japan and bombed Tokyo which showed that America was going to war against Japan.
The only time America attacked Japan is defending Pearl Harbour
America declared war on Japan and entered WW2.
After the second attack Japan surrendered.
America struck back after being attacked by Japan on 7 December 1941
it was a surprise from japan that they were not expecting
America declared war on Japan.
Joy and elation that WW2 was finally over.
Serious but not so bad we had to sue for peace
I'm not siding with anyone here. But it was pretty messed up that Japan bombed us. Then again you have to think why did they bomb us? Well because we banned exports to Japan which is needed to survive, Japan practically didn't have any resources. The fact that we banned exports to Japan is a conflict (it is for Japan). Not only was that a conflict but, the attack by Japan was cruel and made the conflict worser. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a huge conflict for America. The conflict was still going on while they were having war, for both Japan and America. So they have their shares of conflicts. However, they made two compromise. They decided to go to war and settle it. And the second compromise was when Japan surrendered and signed the peace treaty.
no, it is from Japan.
Who said they did? Japanese troops did go into Korea that year.