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==Final decision made to attack==
The strike force that attacked Pearl Harbor had set sail the day before, on the morning of November 26, 1941, Japan time, which was November 25, Washington time. It could have been recalled along the way, but no further diplomatic progress was made.

At an Imperial Conference on December 1, Emperor Hirohito approved attacks against the United States, the British Empire and the Dutch colonial empire. On December 4, President Roosevelt was warned by a 26-page ONI memo that the Japanese were showing particular interest in the (US) West Coast, the Panama Canal and the Territory of Hawaii.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8932197/Pearl-Harbour-memo-shows-US-warned-of-Japanese-attack.html |title=Pearl Harbour memo shows US warned of Japanese attack |quote=On the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbour, the attack that propelled America into the Second World War, a declassified memo shows that Japanese surprise attack was expected. |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |first1=Jacqui |last1=Goddard |date=4 December 2001 |accessdate=11 February 2019}}</ref> On {{nowrap|December 7–8}}, the Japanese began attacks against the [[Commonwealth of the Philippines|Philippines]], [[Guam]], [[Wake Island]], [[British Malaya|Malaya]], [[Singapore]], [[Hong Kong]], and [[attack on Pearl Harbor|Hawaii]].