Let’s see I’m trying to find here. When Japan occupied French Indochina 1941, the US actually retaliated by freezing all Japanese assets in the States, preventing Japan from purchasing oil. And it was actually this that many historians think had caused Japan to decide to attack Pearl Harbor, hoping that the US would negotiate peace, because it was sort of an embargo on their core ingredient, their ability to race.

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