... alert at that point. In some ways, Japan's strategy was a success, but in other ways, it was a complete failure which ended up costing Japan later in World War II. In the months leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, tensions between the United States and Japan were rising. One author accounted that, "Japan became imperialistic and decided it needed more land to ... packed together which made a great target for Japanese submarines and warplanes. Although most of the ships moored at Pearl Harbor were destroyed, most of them were later repaired. One author notes the losses in ships as ...

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