Demystifying Pearl Harbor : a new perspective from Japan /

• Main Author: Iguchi, Takeo 1930
• Format: Book
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: Tokyo : International House of Japan, 2010.
• Series: LTCB International library selection ; 27
• Subjects: Cartas; Relaciones internacionales; Guerra Mundial > 1939-1945; Estados Unidos; Japón; Pearl Harbor (Hawaii)

Table of Contents:

• Washington : 7 December 1941
• Internment
• The repatriation ships and the transfer at Lourenço Marques
• Singapore (Shõnan)
• 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 Tõjõ 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?