[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

Nothing really to apologize for. In August 1941, FDR cut them off from oil. He had probably moral reasons, but nonetheless, he cut them off from civilization’s lifeblood (the US was the Saudi Arabia of that time, big oil exporter). His military said . . . the only place to get oil is Indonesia and for us to do that, the US Pacific Fleet must be neutralized.

Ah, so this is the reason Japs killed 20 million chinese. They needed oil. Presumably it's also the reason they vivisected prisoners. They needed oil. American airmen were vivisected at a Japanese medical school. This latter event proves that even Japan's finest, such as their med students and doctors, were sick in the head.

[Owen]

China’s oil is in the northwest. What was Manchuria. Yup, that’s why they went there.