WWII Invasion of Hawaii

by mltreado

The surprise attack on pearl harbor was a huge success for Japan. Would Japan have been able to successfully complete an invasion and occupation of Hawaii? What were the logistical challenges that prevented them attempting this? Was a full invasion considered by Japan during the planning of the attack?

jschooltiger

No, they would not have had the logistics capacity to sustain an invasion of Midway, let alone the main Hawaiian islands, which were not (and are not) remotely self-sustaining in food. I wrote about this before here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/80xu8w/did_the_japanese_seriously_consider_invading/

and here

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/aip710/what_was_the_japanese_plan_post_pearl_harbor_and/

And also check out the answers from u/dbht14 in the first linked thread.