Pearl Harbor Wasn't Only Japanese Action on Dec. 7

On December 7, 1941, a date that US President Franklin Roosevelt said “would live in infamy,” the Japanese navy attacked the naval and air bases on Oahu, Hawaii, most notably at Pearl Harbor, in a surprise attack (or sneak attack in the vernacular of the time) that devastated the American Pacific Fleet.  While the Pearl Harbor raid captures most of our historical attention, the Empire of Japan was up to plenty of other shenanigans on that same day (also December 8, 1941 for those areas West of the International Date Line), kicking off a wider war intended to bring stability and wealth to the people of Japan in the face of European hegemony and colonialism.  (Subjugating and oppressing fellow Asians was just part of the price to pay for supposed “relief” from European overlords.)