Before and after World War II, the United States was a bystander's position, observing the movement of the war, and the relationship with Japan was relatively special, Japan is an island country, the local resources are very scarce, so it launches wars everywhere, scavenging the resources of other countries, and Japan can win consecutive victories, I have to say that it is still dependent on the big guy behind it - the United States.
However, Japan is getting more and more vigorous, believing that it has the ability to dominate the world and can compete with the United States, which makes the United States very unhappy, although the United States plays the role of a bystander in the international community and does not launch war against any country, but it can use economic sanctions against Japan.
In 1941, Japan looked very strong, in our country, Vietnam and other places wanton, but the actual situation is that the Japanese army has been exhausted in many years of war, if it is not the United States behind the arms support, I am afraid that Japan's military resources have been scarce, in addition to the fascist Germany's victory over the Soviet Union on the Western Front, greatly stimulated Japan.
There are only two words in Japan's mind, "resources", and only with resources can it continue to fight, exercise control over other countries, and then gain benefits from it; Japan's movement is too big, and it is undoubtedly unfavorable to the United States, so the United States has imposed economic sanctions on Japan, and this is equivalent to strangling Japan's lifeblood.
Supposedly, Japan was held in the lifeblood and should immediately retreat, but Japan did not want more than a decade of war, and finally failed, they decided to risk another big rebellion, they turned the globe, found a secret, they found that they could attack Southeast Asia, as long as they captured Southeast Asia, it was possible to achieve hegemony.
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese army sneaked into Pearl Harbor in the United States, the Outbreak of the Pacific War, the United States was caught off guard, did not expect That Japan would bite itself, so it suffered heavy losses, and thus dragged the United States into the War II war, and then the United States declared war on Japan.
In this battle, the Japanese almost exhausted everything, after the attack on Pearl Harbor, quickly bombed the rest of Southeast Asia, the following January 2, the Japanese army occupied Manila, MacArthur command of the United States, Philippines defenders even temporarily unable to resist, retreated to Bataan, the United States also worried about MacArthur defeat and capture, MacArthur transferred MacArthur away.
On April 9 of the same year, MacArthur's successor, Jonathan Wainwright, surrendered and Bataan fell, at which point Japan took control of the Central Pacific, and Japan fully hoped to surrender to the Pacific War, but soon Tokyo was bombed by the American Army, which made the Frightened Bird of Japan feel very panicked.
On August 7, the United States began to counterattack Japan, Japan was only doing the last struggle, so desperately resisted, and the strength of the United States was much higher than that of Japan, so Japan was defeated again, and the defeat of the Japanese army in the Battle of Midway had written a song for Japan's surrender.
Once the situation of defeat appeared, Japan's "huge balloon" was discouraged, repeatedly defeated, and even lost, the Japanese army in the Pacific theater was like scattered sand on the side, and then the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese mainland, and Japan's last insistence had been destroyed, and finally announced unconditional surrender.
However, the United States took advantage of this to control Japan, so that MacArthur was stationed in Japan, Japan was powerless, MacArthur once wanted to severely punish Japan and judge the emperor, but arrived in Japan and learned about Japan's national conditions, but instead used the Japanese emperor to indirectly rule Japan, and japan was held back by the United States for a long time.