re: August 1, 1941 - Japan is Getting Hungry, Barbarossa is Confused

A lot of folks don't know that just 20 years earlier, Japan was an ally to us in WWI.

Japan has been a militaristic country having lived under the Bushido Code.

Japan was looking to expand its power and dominance on the world stage but was/is very limited in natural resources.

The US had been supplying Japan with oil, and many other raw materials including steel that was being used to build up their military.

When Japan invaded China, FDR cut off their oil, steel and other materials.
The mold had been set, Japan was being squeezed and looked else where, mainly for oil to the south of Japan.

PM Hediki Tojo was highly militaristic and stoked the nationalist fevor amoung the Japan population.

Vice Admiral Yamamoto was dead set against going to war with US and knew that the US had too many resources that would never be matched by the Japanese.

In fact, Yamamoto had attended school in the US and was very well aware of the US industrial and military might.