The Pacific War -- Who Is To Blame?
In 1543 a storm drove a China bound Portuguese ship ashore in Japan. Later ships brought Catholic missionaries, and soon a large area of the southern island of Kyushu became Christian. This upset both...
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First, Masanori Ito: "Even with the building of Yamato and Musashi war could have been avoided if the Navy had pursued an unswerving policy of peace at any cost. The Council of Senior Statesmen...
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That is great historical information, FT. My only comment is that at times I am not always sure when you are speaking and when you are quoting from some of your sources. More detail, as to which is...
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The embargo of Japan, being the reason for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, I always fall to the floor in a fit of laughter when 'sanctions' are mentioned as a possible non-aggression method of...
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Tell it to South Africa, for example. And it was not so much the sanctions-it was Knox's over aggressive wording, which demanded the Japanese retreat entirely from Chia to have them lifted. Now here...
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it was Knox's over aggressive wordingSecNav?(The secretary if the Navy)Perhaps you meant Hull. In anycase, it might also have been the fact that the Japanese foreign minister was insane.
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Hull, you are correct. When Japan moved into Indochina, FDR ordered more sanctions-I believe he was in Warm Springs... Hull worded it to demand Japan withdraw entirely from China, he was very...
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I can't find fault with insisting the Japs get entirely out of China. There's something outrageous about that? Perhaps they should have insisted only getting out of half of China? Sticking up for a...
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It was a position we knew they would reject. I note we were not getting out of Indian land, Puerto Rico, etc... Again, an interesting question is whether the Army would have actually done it.
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My impression is they moved into Indochina to try to stem he flow of supplies to China. I think there are some similarities with the Japanese move into China and ours into Iraq, that are interesting....
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What interesting similarities do you find between the Japanese move into China and ours into Iraq? Can you also see any interesting differences?
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John Toland, in his book The Rising Sun, suggested that the Japanese went to war in China to prevent a Communist takeover of that country. The problem I have with this reasoning is that Japan picked...
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From what I have read of their internal politics, not much-the Army wanted to expand, and the government was not willing to step in and stop them.
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