Well do we have access to any documentation of a sincere plan to invade the mainland?
I know that Japan engaged in limited shelling and balloon bombing of the West coast.
From my readings I always got the impression the intent was to constrain the American forces in the Pacific, that is prevent American interference in Japan's plans for SE Asia and East Asia.
It would be interesting to see if there were any viable war plans for the invasion of the continental United States and see how they expected to do it.
The problems for both side of the Pacific would be logistics. Unless the Japanese could secure a base either in Canada or Mexico, logistically supporting a land invasion of the US even from Pearl would be very difficult.
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