“On that date, President Franklin Roosevelt introduced sweeping economic sanctions and asset seizures against Japan.
As a result of those sanctions, “Japan lost access to three-fourths of its overseas trade and 88 percent of its imported oil,” according to History.”
compete bullshit ...
Needing oil to maintain its military might, Japan had little choice but to declare war on the West and mobilize its imperial fleet against the United States less than five months later.”
A. the U.S. sanctioned Japan for invading and occupying half of China ...
B. Japan could always have BOUGHT the oil they needed from Asian countries that did NOT sanction Japan ...
I thought the sanctions of that July 1941 were due to the Japanese army occupation of French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia) and the French, under Vichy, could not defend the territory.
Respectfully to the author in the main article, the US was having talks with the Imperial government over this issue, with some mixed signals that Japan would not move their military into Indochina.
The British government imposed sanctions, too. So did the Independent Dutch in the East Indies. Both the British Malaya and the Indies, rich with oil, were made extremely vulnerable with the Japanese so close.
The sanctions were a response to direct Japanese aggression and invasion.