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The US engaged Japanese forces all over the pacific, including the Philippines, Guam, Saipan, Guadalcanal, Midway, The Solomons, Gilbert Islands, Marshall Islands, Tarawa, Palau, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. A planned Invasion of the Japanese Home Islands was determined to be too costly in terms of lives on both sides. The US used Atomic Weapons in two total war targets, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Following the second Atomic bomb, the Imperial Government of Japan surrendered to the US aboard the USS Missouri. The war in the Pacific lasted from Dec 1941 until Aug 15, 1945

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Pearl Harbor was attacked Dec 7, 1941 starting WWII in the Pacific. Japan was beaten back to her home land, but refused to concede defeat.

After what they did in China, and their attempts at Australia and New Zealand, there had to be an end enforced.

Japan didn't want the war to end. They had a pact with Germany, and wanted an open war with Russia.

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That depends on how far back you go in history... did we attack them? Not per say. Though when Commodore Perry was credited with opening trade with Japan, he sailed in with a heavily armed warship escort, more than capable of destroying the small Japanese ships present there. He also ordered the guns of said ship to be aimed towards the Village of Uraga (at the entrance of Tokyo bay). It was under this implied threat that he forced the Japanese to accept a letter from President Millard Filmore which outlined the United States terms of trade. At the time Japan only had one port which it allowed limited trading to be done from and that was Nagasaki (which was later chosen as the second and to this day the last city to be struck by a nuclear weapon) Commodore Perry's power play more or less forced Japan to open up trade arrangements on much larger scales with the US and later other nations.

As far as an actual attack where violence was used (not just implied) all records I have seen or can find indicate that no.. we never attacked them on a national scale until after they struck at Pearl Harbor.

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The first published attack was the Doolittle Tokyo Raid, but US Navy submarines were attacking Japanese shipping before that.

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The Doolittle raid, launched from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet; sunk later at the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands.

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The US entered Word War II against the Japanese after Pearl Harbor The Japanese were already participating in the war.

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Yes about 3 years later

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