Re: Breaking : It was reveal now that USA attacked the Japanese which spark World War
The Japanese skipped a chapter or two in logical military strategy. That was where the surprise element was. But the Japanese were too clever by half. They should have expected that the main US carrier battlegroups out at sea ready for them. Raiding Pearl Harbor at the wrong time without proper intelligence was just a pyrrhic and temporary victory.
the japs knew the u.s. carriers were docking in pearl harbor, but exactly when they came to port, they were not sure. the main ijn fleet set off on nov 26 from northern japan, and they timed the attack to coincide with the delivery of the message from tokyo by the jap ambassador to the u.s. state department in person in washington, on sunday morning.
a jap official, after the war, claimed that they were following the samurai (bullshido) code - "you don't kill the enemy while he is still asleep; you kill the enemy after waking him up at dawn, while he is barely awake."
nomura, the ambassador, was supposed to receive the message and decode it early sunday morning. he was supposed to deliver the message to break off peace negotiations (which meant war) with hull a few minutes before the first jap aircraft attack pearl harbor. he couldn't because he claimed that he did not receive the message until monday, december 8. moreover, his staff who normally handled and decoded messages from tokyo were off on sunday. he claimed he had to decode the message with his assistant, kurusu after the attack took place -- an embarassing jap procedural fuckup, so to speak. this procedural error does not excuse the japs from starting the war.
nonetheless, fuck up or no fuck up, carriers or no carriers, the japs were intent on attacking on sunday, when they knew americans were either worshipping, sleeping in, fucking, lazying or just plain having a hangover.
the fact that they sailed for days and weeks (start date nov 26) to reach the northwest part of the hawaiian island chain where they could launch aircraft indicated clearly that they meant war with the u.s., way before december 7, u.s. intell botchups, jap ambassadorial botchups and all.