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Since the Meiji Restoration, Japan has been using force to expand externally to make up for its lack of economic strength. Therefore, the Military Ministry plays a decisive role in national policies, and the national policies formulated by the Military Ministry have made Japan more superstitious about force. Japan's many foreign affairs after the Meiji Restoration can be regarded as gambling on the national destiny, and Japan was indeed lucky. It won the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War. The "September 18th Incident" in 1931 was still an incident, and it was easily won. Along with continuous victory comes continuous expansion. Expansion requires huge consumption of resources. In order to occupy more, further expansion is necessary. Continuous positive feedback has led to Japan's inevitable attack on China, a poor and weak mainland country at that time, and also led to Japan's inevitable direct conflict with the United States, the largest country in the world at that time. It's easy to start a game, but it's hard to end it. The balance of strength between the two sides is so uneven. Except for those fanatics in Japan, I am afraid no one will think that Japan can win. Even Yamamoto Isoroku, the commander of the Combined Fleet who planned the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, did not believe that Japan could win the final victory. All his operational ideas were to eliminate the main force of the U. S. Pacific Fleet as soon as possible in order to negotiate for peace and retain as many benefits for Japan as possible. But God's calculation is not as good as man's calculation. The determination of the United States far exceeded Japan's pre-estimates; the military strength brought by its huge industrial base gave the United States an absolute advantage in the desperate battle with Japan. However, even such a huge advantage requires generals and warriors on the battlefield to turn it into victory. So we saw the perfect sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, mankind's first aircraft carrier battle on the Coral Sea, the beautiful victory of less than the majority at Midway, the Green Hell on Guadalcanal, the internal strength competition between the two sides in the South Pacific, the Battle of Mariana, the largest aircraft carrier battle in history, the unprecedented large-scale naval battle in Leyte Gulf, the tragedy of burning Tokyo, and the advent of the atomic age.