Japan's a Superinteresting Case.

Japan built up a giant stock pile of oil in the 19 thirties, long before they attacked pearl harbor. The united states issued an ultimatum to japan and basically said, look, you know, if you continue to and in asia, bad things will happen to you. Japan realized that because their interests in asia flicted with theunited states interests, war with the united states was going to be inevitable. They reasoned, ok, if war with the United States is inevitable, the united states is going to blockade our oil supplies at some point. So pearl harbor really, in all or ways, is motivated by this need for oil, right? A, the need