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Forget 1939, Imperial Japan Almost Started World War II in 1937 The prospect of war with Japan and the possibility of abandoning China both gained some public traction following the attack and its resulting publicity. Here s What You Need to Remember: It was rogue Japanese officers who were behind the attack, not the Japanese government. The chaos spawned by the Japanese attack of Nanking may have provided what those elements considered an opportunity to further their own aims. They almost succeeded. In December 1937, four years before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor propelled the United States into the war, Japanese planes attacked an American gunboat, the USS Panay, on China’s Yangtze River, strafing and bombing the boat, sinking it, killing three American crew members, and the wounding 45 others. ....