Whose back was stabbed? : FDR's secret war on Japan / Koichi Mera.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mera, Koichi, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945.

United States--Foreign relations--Japan.

United States.

Japan--History--1926-1945.

Japan.

Japan--History--1945-1989.

Japan--Foreign relations--United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, [Maryland] : Hamilton Books, 2017.

Summary:

This book aims to change the American-skewed perception of the Pacific War by asking the reader one central question: who actually started the Pacific War? By examining facts recently revealed through the declassification of official documents, the decoding of secret communications between the Soviet Union and its operatives, and the findings from American and Japanese writers in recent decades, the author illuminates the role played by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in pushing Japan to the brink of war. The author also delves into the U.S. occupation of Japan immediately after the war. The book reviews the historical background of U.S.-Japan relations from the visit of Commodore Matthew Perry in 1853 to the present day. Utilizing a wealth of Japanese and American materials, the author presents an alternative view of the historical relationship between the two countries. After reviewing nearly two hundred years of history, the author concludes his arguments by urging contemporary Japanese to reexamine their view of history and to be confident that their nation has a bright future. -- from back cover.

Contents:

1. Japan twice trapped: The Pacific War and beyond

Japan in two traps

Recent documents reveal the lies and deceptions by the Allied Nations

2. The Tokyo war crimes trials: A travesty of legal justice

The Tokyo war crimes trials performed without legal basis

The imposition of the Tokyo war crimes trials by the military occupation forces

The trials that no one can justify

Japan was not an "aggressor nation"

An injustice that even the United States admitted

Notes

3. Japan among competing powers

The need to reevaluate modern history

The Russo-Japanese war as the starting point of the Great East Asian war

The persecution of Japanese immigrants

The clash of interests in Japan's "Twenty-One demands"

America's ravenous territorial expansion

Shackling Japan at the Washington Naval Conference

The Manchurian incident and Japan's isolation

Behind-the-scenes maneuvering by the Soviet Comintern

The Anti-Japanese propaganda campaign of Soong Meiling

4. The historical implications of Japan's resistance to colonization

Japan's role in the liberation of Asia

Japanese reply to Commodore Perry's OPEN DOOR request

Strained relationships with China, Korea and Russia

Clash between Japan and China in Korean peninsula

Japan saved Korea from Russia and China

The position of the U.S. toward Japan's annexation of Korea

Independence of various Asian countries and their modernization

Japanese encouragement to colonized Asian and African people

The U.S. deceiving the Philippines, and Japan assisting Indonesia

The ideal of the Great East Asian co-prosperity sphere

Japan crushed by the U.S.

The legacy of "Great East Asia co-prosperity sphere"

5. Japan's challenge to racial discrimination

The cruelty of interracial war

Progression of colonial rules by Western powers

The global environment Japan jumped into

First appeal for global racial non-discrimination by Japan

The new regime of Great East Asia for the Asians

The cruelty of the Second World War

Impacts of the Great East Asian War on Asian and African countries

Civil rights movement in the U.S.

6. President Roosevelt pushed Japan to retaliate

Rewriting history

The context of Roosevelt's provocations

Roosevelt's diplomatic policies

Driving Japan to the brink

The Soviet plot behind the Hull note

The words and deeds of President's Men on the Eve of the Pearl Harbor Attack

The memoirs of Herbert Hoover

MacArthur's testimony before the U.S. Senate

Conclusions

7. Japan's total defeat in the Information war

Information is power

Stalin's global strategy and manipulation of information

The Second Sino-Japanese war and the Comintern

The way China's leaders used information

The fabrication of the Nanking Massacre

President Roosevelt's intrigues

Japan's failure to use its home-made radar technology

The Occupation Army's skillful manipulation of information

Japan failed in the Information War

8. American occupation policy of castrating Japan

Introduction

Control of the Japanese government

Trying of war criminals

Purging of influential persons

Dissolution of business conglomerates

Information control

Confiscation of "undesirable books"

Imposing a new constitution

Provision of propaganda information

Education reforms

Taxation policies

Farm land reform

General impacts

9. The historical legacy of World War II in Asia

Two postwar trends

The establishment of American hegemony

The founding of the United Nations and the Bretton woods system

The power of nuclear deterrence

The USSR's challenge to America and its collapse

The new struggle for supremacy

The revival and growth of Japan

The independence of the former colonies in Africa and Asia

The secrets of rapid growth that East Asia learned from Japan

Neglect of defense and the peace stupor

The plaza accord: Japanese good will meets American Machiavellianism

Japan's relations with neighboring nations

The world's admiration for Japan

Putting an end to the imposed Constitution and to the legacy of the Tokyo trials

10. Conclusions: Japan should take pride in her past

Japan should be proud of not being crushed by the Western powers

The true defeat took place after the Allied Occupation

The Japanese must be respected

Japan must deal with the U.S. on an equal footing

Japan should walk on her own path.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7618-8492-0

0-7618-6896-8