Except it's wrong. Japan started attacking China in 1937 and did not stop until the end.
It was then. Japan attacked America because we were actively providing weapons and support to the Chinese.
Japan already had Manchuria by 1932.
There's your petroleum and iron production right there.
Cracka please. Here's my sauce, were's yours?
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/pearl-harbor
Checked.
Plenty more out there.
A year before, on 19 December 1940, Roosevelt approved $25 million in military aid to China, Japan’s traditional nemesis, including the gift of aircraft. Twenty-five million dollars in 1940 equates to nearly half a billion dollars today. On 11 March 1941, America’s president signed into law the Lend-Lease Act, a program providing further materiel to the Chinese – and also to other nations like Britain, the Soviet Union and France, all of which were far from benevolent towards Imperial Japan.
http://www.greatamericanplanes.com/pursuit_planes/curtiss_p-40_warhawk/
https://www.globalvillagespace.com/second-world-war-japan-japanese/
https://history.army.mil/brochures/72-38/72-38.HTM