What was Japan's endgame with this?

And how the fuck did they almost reach/invade Australia?

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the endgame was being the hegemon of east asia with all the other countries as vassals providing rescources

Japan has no resources.
That land in the east Asian co prosperity sphere had all the relevant resources at the time that Japan lacked.
With such large manpower base and production capacity and everything it would be a world class superpower.
It explains the nukes.

problem was that almost all of these countries already were under european control and taking them meant pissing off powerfull nations

There was no endgame. The Japanese military had taken over the country and was literally just making shit up as they went along.
>invade china
>oh shit this is taking longer than expected
>oh fuck now we are running out of oil and rubber
>better invade SEA for their resources
>oh shit this means we have to attack the phillipines which belong to the US
>better launch a decapitation strike against the US to get them out of the picture
>oh shit that didnt work
>better quickly take over the pacific islands to stop the US advance
>oh shit all our ships are easily destroyed by the US and now our pacific bases are basically just prison camps for our own soldiers
>better hope our superior yamato spirit carries us
>oh shit we got nuked
>btw the whole time weve been assassinating everybody in the government who opposes us

They also did Pearl Harbor, what were they thinking

If US aircraft carriers were in port at pearl harbour and not out on some random routine exercise patrol mission ww2 in Pacific would develop differently.
From Japanese point of view that was like getting snake eyes when any roll above would be a win.

Oh please. Suppose that the aircraft carriers were all destroyed. Do you really think that we would've just rolled over and that Japan's 'strategy' of attacking every single neighbor was feasible?

It actually makes a lot of sense if you look at it from their perspective. Most people think Japan's attack was unprovoked but America actually sanctioned them hard during the war so a war was pretty much inevitable. Japan at the time had a very advanced navy. They thought they could get the upper hand with a surprise attack

It was a retarded idea to begin with because it's unlikely that Japan taking the Phillipines suddenly would have galvanized the american public into doing a 180 on war

They did take the Phillipines

it was working with the dutch and the british
if the soviets had turned east they probably would have lost their continental possessions but that would still mean no competition outside the usn/rn for SEA
depends, they had pretty abysmal radar and fire control systems

yes but it's not like that alone would lead to an american-japanese war, pearl harbour is what led to the japanese demise

>it was working with the dutch and the british
That came after Pearl Harbor, and those countries were already occupied with a more important war

If they did not attack Pearl Harbor, but did attack the Phillipines we would have still declared war on them

i was referring to the second half of your post, their neighbors (ie not the us) were not putting up too much resistance for the time being

how so? you really think the average american would be convinced of going to war because of a colony

>let me tell you about your country

Yes. It was american territory and in the process of attacking it they would have to attack american troops. That would be terribly easy to sell to the american public. Keep in mind that Hawaii itself was not even a state yet.

>let me tell you about basic knowledge of pre 1941 american public opinion