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Do you mean in multiplayer? In single player, I have yet to see a Japanese AI to win against an American one, not to speak of a human USA... Usually, Japans gets annexed around 1942, sometimes later.
If you're playing Japanese against USA AI on any other than easy difficulty you will find the amount of their carriers simply overwhelming so that you can't just run around after them after Pearl Harbor bonuses are gone.