Pearl Harbor and the coming of the Pacific War : a brief history with documents and essays
"Assembling more than thirty primary documents - including proposals, memoranda, decrypted messages, and imperial conference reports - Iriye presents diplomatic exchanges from both American and Japanese perspectives to determine how and why the United States and Japan went to war in 1941. A detailed introduction provides background on Japanese aggression in China and Southeast Asia during the 1930s and economic unrest and isolationism in the United States. Readings add an interpretive dimension, placing Pearl Harbor in global context with essays from American, Japanese, Chinese, Soviet, German, British, and Indonesian perspectives that explain how various countries applied pressure, offered assistance, exacerbated rifts, and significantly affected negotiations and Japan's ultimate decision for war."--Jacket
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xii, 258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
9780312218188, 9780312147884, 0312218184, 0312147880
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Introduction : "The day of infamy"
The war in Europe
The war in Asia
The American dilemma
Toward Pearl Harbor
The documents. Washington discussions on China and the Tripartite (Axis) Pact
Discussing plan B
Discarding the modus vivendi
The Hull note
Japan's view of the Hull note
Japan's December 7 note
Introduction : Pearl Harbor in global context
China
The Soviet Union
Great Britain
The British commonwealth
The Dutch East Indies
The Philippines
French Indochina
Germany
The essays. Japan's decision to "Go South" / Sumio Hatano and Sadao Asada
The petroleum question / Minoru Nomura
Ambassador Joseph C. Grew and the U.S.-Japanese crisis / Waldo H. Heinrichs
Pearl Harbor as an intelligence failure / David Kahn
The Chinese-Japanese War / Katsumi Usui
China and U.S.-Japanese relations / Wang Xi
The British perspective / Anthony Best
The Indonesian perspective / Ken'ichi Goto
The German perspective / Bernd Martin
The Soviet perspective / Alexei M. Filitov