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Originally Posted by DavyJonesFootlocker
No, not the case of Japan was busy with China. Japan had a squirmish with Russia and they got their butts kicked real bad. They sure didn't want that again and were wary of a war with Russia.
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Ever go on a cruise to patrol the Formosa Straights? Well, your compass doesn't work too well on the south end because that's where Tojo and the Japanese fleet wiped out the Russkies in a naval battle which should have scared us into adopting a different naval strategy then and there. Theodore Roosevelt bagged himself a Nobel Peace Prize for getting the Japanese and Russkies to declare peace after the Russian fleet was sent safely to the bottom.
That is why Tojo had the national stature to lead Japan to war in WWII. They would happily have scrapped with the Russian navy instead of us. But if they had met us capital ships to capital ships they would have cleaned our clocks too.
So the facts are the reverse of what you state. The Russians lost decisively.