Comments by "Gorilla Disco" (@gorilladisco9108) on "The Real Reason Japanese Samurai Were Killed Off" video.

  1. Ackhchuailly, the name Meiji was given to him AFTER he was DEAD. While he was alive, his name was Mutsuhito. The same thing with Showa, it's not his name WHILE he was ALIVE. When he was alive, his name was Hirohito.
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  2. Japan didn't want to fight with western power because they knew their limits. The reason Japan attacked Pearl Harbor was because the US stopped their oil export to Japan. Japan either had to roll back from China or double down. They double down. They raised the stake by trying to wrest Netherland East Indie (today's Indonesia). The US and British were just happened to be in the way.
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  3.  @electrictroy2010  Japan couldn't keep fighting in China. For one, they would run out of oil within months because of USA oil embargo. No oil, no war machine. Worse yet, no oil meant no ammo supplies from Japan factories. Japan soldiers would had to fight with bayonet and shuriken. The only oil source within striking distance was oil wells in Netherlands East Indie. But to grab it, they would have to go through British, which their colonies in Malaya constitute a belt between Japan and Netherlands East Indie. And to break through British, Japan had to consider the risk that USA would intervene physically (instead of just diplomatically with their oil embargo over Japan invasion of China). That's why their invasion was conducted simultaneously with the attack of Pearl Harbor. The Pearl Harbor attack wasn't meant to defeat USA. Japan military strategist were aware that, unlike Russia in 1905, they couldn't defeat USA with just one attack. It was only meant to stun USA, prevented them from intervened with Japan conquest in South East Asia, which also had to be done swiftly because Japan oil reserve only last for months away before dried up. Japan hoped that they could negotiated peace with USA afterwards. And no, they couldn't rely on Saudi Arabia to supply them with oil, which was (and still today) under USA sphere of influence. Saudi Arabia was under USA influence even more during that time where they were still a new state and they didn't yet to know how to mine the oil themselves.
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