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Demystifying Pearl Harbor: a new perspective from Japan / Iguchi Takeo ; translated by David Noble.
Van Pelt Library D742.U5 I4813 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Iguchi, Takeo, 1930-
- Series:
- LTCB international library selection ; no. 27.
- LTCB international library selection = Chōgin kokusai raiburarī sōsho ; no. 27
- LTCB international library selection = 長銀国際ライブラリー叢書 ; no. 27
- Standardized Title:
- Kaisen shinwa. English
- 開戦神話. English http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2010114373
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- War, Declaration of.
- History.
- Japan.
- World War, 1939-1945--United States--Causes.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Japan--Causes.
- United States--Foreign relations--Japan.
- United States.
- International relations.
- Japan--Foreign relations--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Ocean.
- Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941.
- War, Declaration of--Japan--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Tokyo : International House of Japan, 2010.
- Contents:
- Washington : 7 December 1941
- Internment
- The repatriation ships and the transfer at Lourenço Marques
- Singapore (Shōnan)
- Growing tension between Japan and the United States
- The Sino-Japanese War
- Motives and goals for war with the United States
- Causes of war between Japan and the United States
- Was war between Japan and the United States inevitable?
- Attempts at conciliation, sanctions, and an aborted summit conference
- The Tōjō cabinet and the failure of negotiations
- The Hull note
- Conspiracy theories
- Declaration of war or termination of negotiations?
- Hiding of the war-decision by Japan
- The unannounced war with Britain
- Transmission of the final memorandum and the timing of its delivery
- The mystery of the delayed telegrams
- The embassy blamed for delaying the final memorandum
- President Roosevelt's personal message to the Japanese emperor
- The military delays transmission of the final memorandum
- The strengths and weaknesses of Roosevelt's personal diplomacy
- Responsibility for the delay of final notification to the United States
- The complex question of war responsibility
- The end of a myth?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-[330]) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9784924971295
- 4924971294
- OCLC:
- 611261599
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