What was japan's ivolvement in world war two??

Question:I am very interested in world war II and I would like to know about Japan's involvment in it. I also have a 2 page essay due on it soon and would really like to do a good job because i have to list like 3 primary sources and so could u please also leave how you know this. thanks!!!!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I am very interested in world war II and I would like to know about Japan's involvment in it. I also have a 2 page essay due on it soon and would really like to do a good job because i have to list like 3 primary sources and so could u please also leave how you know this. thanks!!!!

Japan wanted their real conquest of the Pacific Islands, and because they feared that American military might around 1937-8 would overwhelm them should they fight in any war, Japan decided, with Hakedi Tojo in power, to strike at the United States at a naval base with so much damage and destruction so that if America retaliates, it would do it slowly.
That was why Japanese air and naval forces bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941.

The Pearl Harbor attack forced all American navy in Hawaii to fight back with bravery...often at the cost of death.

Japanese zero planes in the Pearl Harbor attack first attacked "Battleship Row"...the main anchor base, mainly by torpedo planes, and dive bombers, and then, made scraping and bombing runs (more of them) at minor and major airfields around Pearl Harbor, such as Ewa Field and Hickam Field, in order to stop any type of aerial counterattack by the Americans. Two waves of bomb attacks on Pearl Harbor were successful...a third wave was to be in the works but was called off by the Japanese naval commander at the very last moment when he felt that there was a sixth sense that America would fight back against this sudden and dastardly attack.

Japan also made other conquests of the Pacific Islands, including the Marshall Islands and Guadacanal, after the Pearl Harbor attack.

Japan's famous last stand in World War II's Pacific Theater, as you may know, on the last year of the war, which came with an introduction to "suicide warfare". The famous Japanese kamikaze pilots decided to dive their Japanese "zero" planes right into naval ships and vessels at Okinawa. Hundreds of such Japanese pilots did this sacrificial feat in the face of plentiful anti-aircraft and machine gun fire from American naval ships. Some of the pilots, even though they died, were successful at hitting big naval vessels, often hitting their main gasoline tank bays, causing those vessels to be engulfed in black smoke, big fireballs and constant
deafening explosions as the volatile gasoline created more explosions.

The Battle of Midway had one kamikaze pilot hit the U.S.S. Yorktown naval ship, and Japanese torpedo bombers created even more damage to this U.S. aircraft carrier, disabling it completely. Regrettably, the Battle of Midway was slightly victorious for the Americans than the Japanese...even though the Japanese air force bombed Midway and knocked out about 40 planes on Midway's air fields........the United States had more naval vessels and more planes on it, so the Japanese eventually were outnumbered at the last days of this famous battle.

Two atomic bombs by the United States on August 6 and August 9 of 1941, striking the Japanese towns of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, forced the unconditional surrender of all Japanese military forces soon afterward.....but not until about 110,000 civilian Japanese died in these nuclear blasts.

Some primary sources I suggest include video movies reenacting the Japanese WWII battles against the Americans.

Some of the films that will help you in this....

"Midway"
"Pearl Harbor" (best to get the Ben Affleck version)
"Tora! Tora! Tora!"

Do the words "Pearl Harbor" ring any bells? It's not just a Ben Afflec Movie

sux 4 u

Japan was the prime Source of WWII. The invasion of China Was the actual start of this conflict.
The war geared up further with Hitlers invasion of Poland...
And who can forget the great victory that Mussolini Had over the World Power Ethiopia?... Sort of like Italy saying to Tojo and Hitler, "See, me too."

the great depression led to japans rebel
the bombing of pearl harbor
japan wanting to expand also caused conflict

japan and pearl harbor are what got america involved in WWII, aka the beginning of the end. actually although it sucked, if japan hadnt bombed pearl harbor, hitler probably would have won the war. thats not to say that japan and the nazi's were allies, cuz they werent, but the US didnt want to be fighting on two fronts and they needed allies.
japan, like italy and germany, was running on a kind of supreme dictatorship based on ethnocentrism and the idea that there was a superior race. they were kinda annoying the americans because we had a lot invested in southern china and the pacific islands and they were picking on your little possessions. then they bombed us and bam, we were at war.
japan was never allied with the nazis- hitler believed that asians were so far subordinant to him that he would never accept their help, but they did kind of agree not to attack each other until they had closed all other fronts, leaving each other till last, hoping that their mutual enemies would destroy each other first.
in the end, after hitler was defeater and russia was dealt with, we went after japan and finished up the job with the nukes.