Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
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> For all I know, war between the US and Japan was coming sooner or
> later, but from the point of view of the Japanese elite, the oil
> embargo must have made them more motivated to "strike the first blow":
>From a web page giving a chronology of the Spanish American War:
11 June (1898) McKinley administration reactivated debate in Congress on Hawaiian annexation, using the argument that "we must have Hawaii to help us get our share of China."
Among the results one might include both Pearl Harbor and Mao's, "China has stood up."
Carrol