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Japan was a smart, expanding and a large country. These points though helped in the loss of the war. Japan lost World War 2 through different aspects from before the war and during the war. The errors made played vital rolls in the war and as the errors tallied up the war headed USA's way.Before the war, Japan had already made wrong assumptions. The first wrong assumption made by the Japanese was that Germany would win the war in Europe so that the US and Britain could not turn their entire strength against Japan which would mean Japan had a stronger force and could chose whether to invade or not invade US and Britain. Secondly, US lacked fighting spirit and they thought that the bombing of Pearl Harbor would leave US demoralized and ask for compromised peace. This did not lose their fighting spirit but made them even more encouraged to win, "Yesterday, December 7, 1941- date which will live in infamy" said by President Roosevelt. Lastly Japan thought that the bombing of Pearl Harbor would cause the US to have barely any ships and therefore would take a long time to rebuild. Japan failed to sink 3 aircraft carriers at sea and these carriers was used to good effect at the battle of Midway. Much of the shipping destroyed in Pea
By the middle of 1944, supplies of pig iron and coking coal were cut to a third of their pre- war quantities. There was nothing left to do but use the bomb. They had underestimated US's industrial power which led therefore to war. The second problem was the failure of Japan's Greater East Asia Co- Prosperity Sphere. Casualties were high and as the co- prosperity sphere became diminished so did the people and the country. During the war Japan had many wrong doings. As a result in 1944 and 1945, "Kamikaze" tactics were placed which involved volunteers to crash- dive into American ships. They had not thought deep enough of what would happen if they went to war, the consequences and the deep tactics involved. Japan was unable to defend such a vast area against an allied counterattack. Thirdly, they had an inability to devise a counter to an American "Island- Hopping" Strategy. Also the occupation of China tied down 1 million Japanese troops and sapped Japanese economic strength. Japan's military leaders were reluctant to revise their war strategy to deal with new allied tactical methods. Japan's efforts to establish the co- prosperity sphere was degraded to nothing.
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