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Japan was already at war before Dec.7 1941. More revisionist fantasy blaming a economic embargo by the US on Japan for causing Japan to go to war? Japan was already at war. The Second Sino Japanese War 1937-1945'. Japan and China had already fought intermittently since 1931. The Second Sino-Japanese War was the largest Asian war in the 20th century. It also made up more than 50% of the casualties in the Pacific War if the 1937-1941 period is taken into account.

On top of this Japan also fought another war with Russia after the Russo-Japanese war of 1904–05. In August 1939, just weeks before Hitler invaded Poland, the Soviet Union and Japan fought a massive tank battle on the Mongolian border – the largest the world had ever seen. In terms of its strategic impact, the battle of Khalkhin Gol was one of the most decisive battles of the Second World War which effectively stopped Japans expansion in the Far East along the Mongolia,Manchuria borders.