[aruanan]

" ...in WW II, I just can’t get past the fact that Japan started that war."

WWII's start is linked to the German invasion of Poland.

For the U.S., it was the attack of Japan on Pearl Harbor that started WWII.

[jamaksin]

Excepting that minor “dust-up” in the Atlantic prior to Pearl Harbor; remembering that the United States was a declared neutral country at the time and was openly violating the tenets of a neutral.