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The Japanese declaration of war was intended to be delivered at 1pm Washington time, which was 30 minutes prior to the first attack on Pearl Harbour was meant to take place. As it happened, the Pearl Harbour attack was running behind schedule, which should have given the Japanese Ambassador even more time. Unfortunately the Ambassador didn’t trust a clerk to decrypt the coded message from Tokyo and type it up and chose to type it himself, and he was a very slow two finger typist and everything went pair shaped at the embassy.

The attack on the Philippine Islands was delayed by weather for several hours. The attacks on Malaya took place before the declaration of war was scheduled to be given to the Americans

Again, that wasn't the declaration of war, but the 14 part message ending negotiations. As the text shows, it was no declaration of war.

The embassy was supposed to break off negotiations by delivering that message at 1 PM Washington time on December 7, or 8 AM December 7 Hawaii time, while the air attack began 7:48 AM December 7 Hawaii time, or ~3 AM December 8, Japan time, and the Ward sank a midget sub an hour before that. If the message was supposed to be before the attack, clearly there was a bigger screwup than just the embassy being slow, even more so if the PH attack was actually behind schedule. The actual declaration of war was not even finalized or approved until the meeting of the Committee of Advisement on the morning of December 8, Japan time, a few hours later, and published later that day in the Japanese evening papers, and not delivered to the United States government until the day after.
 
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The Japanese declaration of war was intended to be delivered at 1pm Washington time, which was 30 minutes prior to the first attack on Pearl Harbour was meant to take place. As it happened, the Pearl Harbour attack was running behind schedule, which should have given the Japanese Ambassador even more time. Unfortunately the Ambassador didn’t trust a clerk to decrypt the coded message from Tokyo and type it up and chose to type it himself, and he was a very slow two finger typist and everything went pair shaped at the embassy.

The attack on the Philippine Islands was delayed by weather for several hours. The attacks on Malaya took place before the declaration of war was scheduled to be given to the Americans
Nope. That wasn't a declaration of war. It was a statement something on the order of 'not our fault if unpleasant things start to happen'. Still, it would have been SOME sort of warning, and not the 'attack with no warning'.
 
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