Since WWII in the pacific was a naval war, their main attack base was their battle fleets; they were mobile.
Various islands held their bases; nearly all of which later became battlefields (Burma, Guadalcanal, Saipan, Okinawa, Iwo Jima, etc.).
Japanese forces attacked the US Navy base at Pearl Harbour on 7th December 1941. This attack brought the United States into World War 2.
To neutrlise it as an Allied base.
A harbor and navy base near Honolulu, Hawaii. It was the site of the surprise Japanese attack on the US that forced the US to enter world War 2.
During the attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, the Japanese used war planes and submarines to bomb the United States Naval Base there. Many people lost their lives that day. Some of them were caught on a ship that sank in the harbor known as the USS Arizona. The attack happened on December 6, 1941.
The Kure Naval District was the main Japanese naval base and HQ of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Notably , Pearl Harbor .
Operation Hailstone was a massive naval air and surface attack launched on 17 and 18 February, 1944, during World War II by the United States Navy against the Japanese naval and air base at Truk in the Caroline Islands, a pre-war Japanese territory.
This happened during World War II after the Japanese attacked the US base in Hawaii when Franklin Roosevelt was president.
They declared war after the attack on Pearl Harbor, where the Japanese bombed a US Navy Base in Hawaii.
The Japanese attack on the US base at Pearl Harbour, Hawaii on 7 December 1941
You are likely thinking of Pearl Harbor.
While it did not start WW2, the Japanese attack on the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in Oahu, Hawaii, was the impetus for the official entry of the United States into WW2.
The Japanese attack on the US Naval base at Pearl Harbour (December 1941).
The United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was attacked by the Japanese on December 7, 1941. At the same time there was an attack on the US-held Philippines.
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor during the Second World War took place at the city of Pearl, Oahu, Hawaii, whose harbor was (and still is) a major American naval base.
Japanese forces attacked the US Navy base at Pearl Harbour on 7th December 1941. This attack brought the United States into World War 2.
During the attack on Pearl Harbor during WW2, the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Imperial Japanese Navy. Between 48 and 68 people died during the attacks and 35 people were wounded.