What were the causes of World war 2 in the pacific?(between the U.S and Japan)
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A new, nationalistic form of the traditional Japanese religion of Shintoism gave religious sanction to the idea that the Japanese were a master race that was entitled to take other peoples' property, lives and freedom. War in the Pacific had one and ONLY one cause--naked Japanese aggression, the all-too-human desire to steal other peoples' property and tell them how to live. History books will identify contributing causes to the war itself, such as the American embargo on war materiel and a failure to let Japan do as much looting as it wanted to after World War I, but if you eliminate State Shintoism, everything else put together wouldn't have led to war. Fortunately this religion was destroyed after the war when the Emperor admitted that he and his ancestors had been lying to Japan for 400 years and that they were not gods and never had been.
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In the years prior to the war Japan and US relations were not good. Japan was taking over countries to expand their empire. Many people say that we were looking for a reason to enter the war but there were a lot of good reasons to do so when you look at what Japan, Italy, and Germany were doing in the 1930's.
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