If you were the Japanese emperor during WW2 and wanted to conquer the US how would you so?

Question

What would your plan in conquering the U.S. be? If I was the Emperor my plan would be.

I would be have an aerial and artillery shelling on Hawaii for about 2 weeks, and during that time. After the first 10 minutes of bombardment of Hawaii the operation to invade the mainland U.S. would begin.
1st FRONT- Pacific Northwest and Great Plains
Invade 500,000 men at San Jose and aerial attack and bombardment of San Francisco with battleships and destroyers supported with 3 carriers of air support. The men push toward and take over S.F. and Oakland, then split up into two task forces of 250K each. One going across California ,towards Reno and another pushing north towards Seattle. The one towards Seattle would then push across the Canadian-US border gobbling up Idaho, Montana, and North Dakota. The other task force near Reno would push across the middle of the US, to take Utah, Colorado, and Nebraska.

2nd Front- Southwest
Have an aerial bombardment of Los Angeles and San Diego,(mostly battleships and destroyers shelling L.A., and 3 carriers and some battleships to attack San Diego). And land 1,000,000 men at Santa Barbara to take L.A. and San Diego. After that push into the Southwest in Arizona and New Mexico. I would also have 250,000 covering the right flank which lands in Baja California to help push towards Texas. (Baja would be easy going because during the 40s nothing was there).

I think the bombardment of the heavy industries in LA and SF would help in my invasion plan and if my armies spend too much time in the cities we could just bypass it and shell it.

With the element of suprise, and remember the U.S. was not at ALL prepared to wage war, I think the Japs could have past the Rockies in a about a month. But I think the plan would probably eventually fail because of overstretched resources. The Japanese could have easily invaded the mainland US but they would only be there for only 6 months or so until we kicked them out.


What would your perfect WW2 invasion plan be?

Answer 1

Ur question would be interesting... If it WAS the emperor that was making these decisions, and it isn't. The emperor had little power at that time (not because of the world wars). And how do u plan to get men onto us soil? The japs didn't hav and didn't need any sort of transportation to transport their army from sea to land or air to land, and remember; besides pearl harbor, no battle has taken place on us soil. And do u think the japs never thought of this? Well they didn't becuz ur plan is outrageous (no offence) And do u think Bombardment is easy? U Might think "oh ye artillery from a Battleship camping 700 miles off the west coast and done", but its not that simple. And ur planning to bombard cities? U can't engage civilians in the rules pf war; the Americans nukes this two cities becuz they were gona win the war,for if they lost, Japan would punish them for war crimes killing civilians. They also couldn't use bombers either; jap bombers were outdated at that time. So u see, its not that simple. There's a lot of other errors, but ill leave it to there.

Answer 2

the japanese warlords,,under hidekei tojo,not the emperor,were the decision makers on the pearl attack,

the US fuel,and gasoline embargo was hampering japans conquests in asia,the japanese hoped for

a quick victory in the attack,they goofed ,and goofed bad in delivering the ultimatum a half hour after the attack,instead of before,which was the plan.

admiral yamamoto recognized that the US was vast,in territory and potential industrial capacity.

the japanese would have run out of gas around big bear mtn.



also,the japanese did not find the USs 3 carriers,the enterprise,lexington & saratoga in the bombing raid,,the US then was able to quickly strike back in 42 feb at the japanese mainland,launching b25s,

the project overseen by doolittle.



the pearl fleet stood between japan & our mainland,,their survival meant a roadblock for the japs.

had they caught all our assets at pearl,,they would have claimed any remaining fuel, of it did in quantity,,waited @ pearl & ford for reinforcing jap land forces ,tanks,planes,mountains of other supplies,and headed for our west coast.

the US would have evacuated w coast residents inland,along with transportable factory & munitions

from san diego,maybe disassembling ships,factories,scuttling what had to be left behind,launching

delaying attacks from california.The japs would have a rough time advancing,after some initial success,as did the germans in russia.the russians set up factories in siberia & other territories in the north,away from and held by the germans,burning what might be used by the enemy.



The japanese at peak,gathered an army of 6,095,000 men,,had they conquered some west coast

territory could the US have done what the russians did,doing re arming,while fighting a delaying retreat,possible getting help from canada,mexico?

I Ithink so

Answer 3

Japanese shouldn't attack USA. They should attack Soviet from flank to help Nazi Germany.