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2. What did the Japanese regard as the main purpose of the attack?

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If it is Pearl Harbor youre talking about then it would have been in hopes to keep the US busy with that instead of the war in the pacific and europe
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They intended to damage the US Fleet so badly that by the time it could be rebuit they would have uncontested control of all of Asia and the South Pacific.
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