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1930s Japan
Japan was bogged down in the costly and exhausting China incident Mired in a bloody war with China since the Mukden Incident (Second Sino-Japanese War) in 1931
The Japanese were unwilling to lose face by withdrawing at the request of the US and decided to reject the offer US officials had developed the idea that Japan would resort to warbut where?
No high-ranking American officials believed that the Japanese would be either reckless enough or strong enough to strike the American naval base at Hawaii Japanese delegates deliberately prolonged negotiations in Washington in an attempt to keep the US guessing