Japan Bites Back: Documents Contextualizing Pearl Harbor

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Edited by Joshua Blakeney. In September 2014 Joshua Blakeney undertook extensive archival research at the National Diet Library in Japan. The documents he retrieved, along with the other essays in this book, provide the "Japanese side of the argument" about the origins of the "clash of civilizations" that was WWII in Asia. The bolshevization of China, Western meddling in Asia, Soviet infiltration of the White House, U.S. expansionism in the Pacific, the anti-Japanese provocations which spawned the Pearl Harbor operation and Japan's Pan-Asianist policies are all subjects explored in the book. Cover......Page 1 Table of Contents......Page 4 The War on Truth......Page 5 Old Themes, New Realities......Page 8 Revisionism and Liberty or Subjugation and a World Based on Myths?......Page 14 1. The Beginning......Page 17 2. China’s False Statement......Page 18 3. The Background......Page 19 4. Japan’s Aims in The Present Conflict......Page 20 5. The Trouble Spreads to Shanghai......Page 21 Atrocity Photos and Manipulated Films......Page 22 The So-called Submarine Menace......Page 23 7. Communism in China......Page 24 8. The Possibility of Protracted Hostilities......Page 25 Hikomatsu Kamikawa, Contemporary Japan: A Review of Far Eastern Affairs, VOL VI NO.3 - Originally Published: December, 1937......Page 27 Ujiro Ohyama, Contemporary Japan: A Review of Far Eastern Affairs, VOL VI NO. 3 - Originally Published: December, 1937......Page 37 Katsuji Inahara A.M., The Foreign Affairs Association of Japan - Originally Published: September, 1938......Page 47 Early Relations With the Continent......Page 54 Continental Culture Imported......Page 55 The Mongol Invasion......Page 57 Hideyoshi’s Korean Expedition......Page 59 Arrival of Europeans......Page 60 The Wars With China and Russia......Page 62 The Sino-Japanese War......Page 63 The Shimonoseki Treaty......Page 64 The Li-Lobanov Treaty......Page 65 The Boxer Trouble......Page 68 Russia’s Manchurian Adventure......Page 70 The Russo-Japanese War......Page 71 The War and the United States......Page 72 The Washington Conference and After......Page 73 Japan’s Interest in Manchuria......Page 74 The Washington Conference......Page 75 Japan’s China Policy......Page 77 Japan and the United States......Page 78 Japan’s Fundamental Problem......Page 79 False Assumptions......Page 81 Japan in Manchuria......Page 82 Anti-Foreignism Staged......Page 84 The Kellog Pact and Manchuria......Page 85 The Manchurian Incident and After......Page 86 The Tangku Truce Agreement......Page 87 The Status of Outer Mongolia......Page 88 The “Tanaka Memorandum”......Page 90 Conflict Instead of Co-operation......Page 91 Japan’s Aims......Page 92 The China Dreams Dissipated......Page 93 Japan as Stabilizing Influence......Page 94 The Anti-Comintern Pact......Page 96 Evolution in International Relations......Page 97 Kojiro Sugimori, Contemporary Japan: A Review of Far Eastern Affairs VOL. VIII NO.3 - Originally Published: May, 1939......Page 98 Kumataro Honda, Contemporary Japan: A Review of Far Eastern Affairs VOL. IX NO.II - Originally Published: November, 1940......Page 105 Nobumasa Suyétsugu, Contemporary Japan: A Review of Far Eastern Affairs, VOL. IX NO.11 - Originally Published: November, 1940......Page 118 Imperial Rescript......Page 123 GENESIS OF THE PACIFIC WAR......Page 125 December 7, 1941......Page 183