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In otl Japan responded the sanctions applied by the US in 1941 with Pearl Harbor.
WI serious sanctions had been applied against Japan after Manchuria and if sanctions against following the invasion of Abyssinia had been applied properly.
I know that it is hard to see how there could be a concensus to carry out such a policy. However if it had worked ....