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Let's imagine for moment that the Japanese have a stroke of luck and discover one of the easier-to-reach oil reserves in Manchuria sometime between 1938 and 1941, solving their petroleum problems for the foreseeable future. What reasons do they still have to go to war with the US and other western powers?

Basically, what other resources were the Japanese lacking that drove them to make "Strike South" a reality? Or was the desire for empire; rather than just autarky, a core motivating factor for the war?
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