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Because the Japanese needed to expand their empir. The French, Dutch, British, Astralians and Americans all occupied the region. The French, Dutch and British were all fighting for their lives in Europe so Japan just walked in and took their colonies. The Astralians were not prepared to fight a war without British help since Astralia was just a colonie with alot of independence. America was the biggest and pretty much the only threat to Japan their was. Japan could not deafet the U.S. because America's industrial cupacity was to strong and the U.S. outnumbered Japan so badly. Japan belived that if the could cripple the U.S. Pacific Fleet then the U.S. couldn't react to Japanese agresson in Pacific.Why did Japan attack at all? Because they thought America would eventauly enter the war against them any how.

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