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Why didn't the Japanese Navy attack the U.S. coastline during WWII?
During 1942, the Japanese had submarines off both the East and West coasts of the U.S. Aside from one attack on a Santa Barbara oil field from deck guns, they never used the submarines against U.S. cities. At the time, we did have coast artillery, but probably could not have defended against sustained "hit and run" attacks. Why didn't the Japanese press this advantage? Was it politics within the Imperial Navy, an unwillingness to attack civilian targets, or merely an oversight?
You are in error. The Japanese Army view prevailed in 1942 to utilize the Japanese Navy First and Second Class Naval resources in occupation, point defense, and expansion to boundary of 'The Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere' as defined by the war plan. Third Class Naval Resources (Naval Submarines) were directed to watch. Santa Barbara was a message. 'There are three kinds of people on the Pacific Ocean', this attack said, 'First class people are Japanese. Second class people are Korean because they are only subservient to Japan. Third class people, those who exist
by our mercy, are everyone else. These few shells fall on America to serve notice to that effect.'
POSTSCRIPTUM - Japan employed Koreans as war labor
and occupation forces. Brutal excesses on third class people (foreign nationals), documented by post-war records,
were committed by Koreans on instruction of the Japanese.
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