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Which ban? The 1924 immigration act? Not gonna try and defend that but it seemed very broad and Japan one of the countries impacted seemed almost incidental considering it seemed to target restricting Italian other European immigration more directly. The militarisation of Japan commenced much earlier, signified by them defeating Russia in 1905. It'd be a stretch to say that American immigration restrictions was a significant or even noteworthy factor behind the militarisation of Japan and the attack on Pearl Harbour that brought the US into World War 2, though admittedly I'm not familiar on Showa Nationalism and will need to read up on that.

