Japan did not attack the West Coast of the United States during World War II due to strategic limitations
Historical and quantitative analyses of Imperial Japan's military capabilities confirm that strategic, economic, and logistical limitations prevented any viable large-scale offensive against the U.S. mainland during World War II.
The claim is specific, empirical, and falsifiable regarding World War II military history. Retrieved papers such as [1] and [6] discuss the rigorous logistical assessments of Japanese staff officers and the quantitative naval constraints that made attacking the U.S. West Coast strategically impossible. Therefore, the evidence clearly supports the claim.
Richard J. Smethurst. Planning for War: Elite Staff Officers in the Imperial Japanese Army and the Road to World War II. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1557466020030612
Paper 1 discusses how elite Japanese military staff officers conducted careful research on logistics and economic strength, recognizing that Japan lacked the capacity to wage a winning war against larger, more economically advanced nations like the United States.
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Yuki Yagi. The Imperial Japanese Navy and the battle of the Philippine Sea: An analysis of the main causes of defeat. 2021. https://doi.org/10.2478/jms-2021-0006
Paper 6 demonstrates through mathematical and quantitative analysis that the Imperial Japanese Navy suffered major defeats primarily due to a severe lack of force concentration and quantitative inferiority against the United States.
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