Ramba uchinyora ndima iyi - VaJapan vaida kurwisa sechiito chokudzivisa kuti United States Pacific Fleet irege kupindira nemabasa ayo ehondo akarongwa muSoutheast Asia mukurwisana nenharaunda dziri mhiri kwemakungwa dzeUnited Kingdom, Netherlands, neUnited States. Mukati mamaawa manomwe pakanga pane kurwisa kwakabatana kweJapan paFiripi, Guam, uye Wake Island dzaidzorwa neU.S. uye paUmambo hweBritain muMalaya
, Singapore, uye Hong Kong. Mukuwedzera, kubva mumurangariro wechiJapan, kwakaratidzirwa sorusundo rwokudzivisa "pamberi pokupera kwemafuta".