Why did the Japan take over Singapore?

Answer 1

The first priority of the Japanese was to ensure access to a fuel supply by which to maintain its fleet activities in the Pacific. It was necessary to eliminate opposition especially from the British base in Singapore so that tankers returning fuel to Japan would not be attacked. If you recall the Americans had imposed an oil embargo on Japan as a belated retaliation for Japanese atrocities in China. The fuel oil was available in islands adjacent to Singapore.

There was also the bland statement from the Japanese that they were freeing South-East Asia from the domination of the colonial French, British, Dutch and Americans, by establishing the South-East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere. A blind intended to suggest that their intentions were honorable. Rather important in view of the atrocities and devastation they had wrought to China and Manchuria for no reason at all. R

Answer 2

Japan invaded Singapore because it was a strategic point in South East Asia. It was a hub for the distribution of oil throughout Asia, and it was a base that they could form for an attack on Indonesia, the East Indies, which was one of the major producers of oil during those times. The Japanese needed supplies of oil to continue their war and their objective of global domination. Prior to that, the Japanese were heavily dependent on oil imported from the US, which obviously would dry up in the event of a Japan-US war, and which was becoming increasingly difficult to buy, with all economic embargoes that the US sanctioned on Japan for their attacks on China.

So the main reason was simply: for oil.

Answer 3

Relatively easily, there's something about the naval guns not being able to fire inland, but that is irrelevant. It was simply unprepared for it's defence against determined attack by the Japanese. But then, that can be said of the whole of South East Asia, as events would prove.

Answer 4

It was a British possession that was vulnerable to attack given the fact that Great Britain was fighting off Nazi Germany on four continents, including England itself. Singapore was a location that would help the Japanese create a sphere of influence over other Western European colonies and possessions that were rich on Natural Resources that would feed its rapidly growing war machine (such as oil, tin, and rubber). Singapore was a major port and city that the Japanese could use to launch further military campaigns against the west throughout Southeast Asia.
The Japanese wanted to control the whole of Asia, and Singapore was the southern-most tip of Asia that was connected by land.

Answer 5

Singapore is rich in traders. That means Japan can earn money using Singapore. It also can show the strength of Japan as that means it conquered one more country.

Answer 6

This is because the Japanese needed resources during the war as Japan was cut off from resources from the countries that did not support Japan.

Answer 7

Japanese attacked Singapore on feberuary the 2nd 1994, it was a big war. yep

Answer 8

it is because Japan wants more land.

Answer 9

Japan did not take over Singapore