Japanese America On The Eve Of The Pacific War

Author : Kaoru Ueda,Eiichiro Azuma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0817926054

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Japanese America on the Eve of the Pacific War by Kaoru Ueda,Eiichiro Azuma Pdf

Are the 1930s a "missing link" in the study of Japanese American history? Yasuo Sakata, the foremost historian of Japanese migration, believes that research of this tense decade before the Pacific War has been neglected and its history largely obscured. This collection of essays aims to uncover this lost period, exploring Japanese American communities and US-Japan relations during the 1930s, from diplomacy, geopolitics, and trade to immigrant and ethnic nationalism, education, and citizenship.

Author : Hector Charles Bywater
Publisher : London : Constable
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Imaginary wars and battles
ISBN : UCAL:$B72448

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The Great Pacific War by Hector Charles Bywater Pdf

'Bywater was a British naval expert and his novel was based on the armed strength of the two navy powers at the time. Bywater goes so far as to name the ships, many of which were lost during World War II. His imaginary war turn out to be frightenly prophetic.' [From Abebooks Website catalogue entry for this, 30th March 2004].

Author : Roger B. Jeans
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538143094

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American Isolationists by Roger B. Jeans Pdf

With war on the horizon in the late 1930s, many Americans, still angry over the outcome of the Great War, determined not to get involved in another global conflict. Called isolationists or anti-interventionists, many of them, especially the America First Committee, focused their attention on the European war when it broke out in September 1939. Most were less interested in Japan’s aggression in East Asia, which left an opening for another isolationist group, the Committee on Pacific Relations, which opposed war with Japan right up to the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In this first full study of pro-Japan isolationists, Roger B. Jeans provides a detailed history of the committee, which was launched in September 1941, a scant ten weeks before the beginning of the war. Its driving force was Missourian Orland Kay “O. K.” Armstrong, who traveled widely during the late 1930s and early 1940s recruiting prominent Americans for his movement against war with Japan. He and his colleagues were often critical of US policies and of China, the victim of Japanese aggression. As a result, they were often ostracized as pro-Japanese. Jeans draws on previously untapped sources—the personal letters of committee members and the dossiers the FBI compiled on them—to paint a rich picture of this little-known group.

Author : Hector Bywater
Publisher : Ravenio Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Great Pacific War by Hector Bywater Pdf

Hector Bywater's 1925 novel discussed a hypothetical future war between Japan and the United States. The prescient work correctly predicted a number of important details about the Pacific Campaign of World War II.

Author : Hector C. Bywater
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002-04
Category : Imaginary wars and battles
ISBN : 9781557095572

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The Great Pacific War by Hector C. Bywater Pdf

This gripping blow-by-blow account of a war between the United States and Japan, originally published in 1925, predicted actual events. Writing 16 years before the japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Bywater, the world's leading naval authority in the period between the two world wars, prophesied a Japanese surprise attack on the U.S. in the Pacific, while simultaneously invading the Phillippines and Guam.

Author : Kaoru Ueda,Eiichiro Azuma
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817926069

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Japanese America on the Eve of the Pacific War by Kaoru Ueda,Eiichiro Azuma Pdf

The era sandwiched between the 1924 US Immigration Act and the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor marks an important yet largely buried period of Japanese American history. This book offers the first English translation of Yasuo Sakata's seminal essay arguing that the 1930s constitutes a chronological and conceptual "missing link" between two predominant research interests: the pre-1924 immigration exclusion and the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. The anthology pays tribute to Sakata's role as a foremost historian of early Japanese America and transpacific migration while providing an opportunity for a younger generation of scholars to reflect on his contributions and carve out a new area of research in Japanese American history. Original and translated essays from scholars of varied backgrounds and generations explore topics from diplomacy, geopolitics, and trade to immigrant and ethnic nationalism, education, and citizenship. Together, they attempt to catalyze further research and writing based on the thorough and careful analysis of primary-source materials, an effort that Sakata spearheaded in both the United States and Japan.

Author : Hector Charles Bywater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : Science fiction
ISBN : OCLC:1152758741

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The Great Pacific War by Hector Charles Bywater Pdf

Author : Stephan Weaver
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781523948413

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World War 2 Japan by Stephan Weaver Pdf

The story of Japanese involvement in WWII is one that includes a number of amazing events between 1939 and 1945. The Japanese went from fighting against just the Chinese to attempting to practically take on the entire world at the one time. Inside you will learn about... ✓ The Attack on Pearl Harbor ✓ The Pacific War Begins ✓ The Completion of the War Plan. ✓ Attacking Australia and Further Expansion ✓ Battle of the Coral Sea ✓ The Battle for the Solomon Islands ✓ The Bomb ✓ The Japanese Surrender And much more! This is a story of rapid expansion, an attempt at consolidation, and ultimately, retreat and massacre. It is a story of honor, of Allied unity, and eventual surrender. The role of Japan in the Pacific War is a part of WWII that cannot be forgotten.

Author : John D. Chappell
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0813170524

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Before the Bomb by John D. Chappell Pdf

Almost forgotten in the haze of events following Nagasaki and Hiroshima, the summer of 1945 witnessed an intense public debate over how best to end the war against Japan. Weary of fighting, the American people were determined to defeat the imperial power that had so viciously attacked them in December 1941, but they were uncertain of the best means to accomplish this goal. Certain of victory - the "inevitable triumph" promised by Franklin Roosevelt immediately after Pearl Harbor - Americans became increasingly concerned about the human cost of defeating Japan. Particularly after the brutal Iwo Jima and Okinawa campaigns, syndicated columnists, newspaper editorialists, radio commentators, and others questioned the necessity of invasion. A lengthy naval and aerial siege would have saved lives but might have protracted the war beyond the public's patience. Advertisers filled the media with visions of postwar affluence even as the government was exhorting its citizens to remain dedicated to the war effort. There was heated discussion as well about the morality of firebombing Japanese cities and of using poison gas and other agents of chemical warfare. Chappell provides a balanced assessment of all these debates, grounding his observations in a wealth of primary sources. He also discusses the role of racism, the demand for unconditional surrender, and the government's reaction to public opinion in the decision to drop the atomic bomb. Compelling and controversial, this is the first work to examine the confusing and contradictory climate of the American home front in the months leading up to V-J Day.

Author : Akira Iriye
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0312218184

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Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific War by Akira Iriye Pdf

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.

Author : Hilary Conroy,Harry Wray
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1989-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0824812352

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Pearl Harbor Reexamined by Hilary Conroy,Harry Wray Pdf

Eighteen essays on the failure of diplomatic efforts by the US and Japan between the two world wars--the problems that thwarted diplomacy, the possible avoidability of the Pacific War. The collection serves as a retroactive study in peace research as well as a study in diplomatic history. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Dr. Jeffrey Record
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786252968

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Japan’s Decision For War In 1941: Some Enduring Lessons by Dr. Jeffrey Record Pdf

Japan’s decision to attack the United States in 1941 is widely regarded as irrational to the point of suicidal. How could Japan hope to survive a war with, much less defeat, an enemy possessing an invulnerable homeland and an industrial base 10 times that of Japan? The Pacific War was one that Japan was always going to lose, so how does one explain Tokyo’s decision? Did the Japanese recognize the odds against them? Did they have a concept of victory, or at least of avoiding defeat? Or did the Japanese prefer a lost war to an unacceptable peace? Dr. Jeffrey Record takes a fresh look at Japan’s decision for war, and concludes that it was dictated by Japanese pride and the threatened economic destruction of Japan by the United States. He believes that Japanese aggression in East Asia was the root cause of the Pacific War, but argues that the road to war in 1941 was built on American as well as Japanese miscalculations and that both sides suffered from cultural ignorance and racial arrogance. Record finds that the Americans underestimated the role of fear and honor in Japanese calculations and overestimated the effectiveness of economic sanctions as a deterrent to war, whereas the Japanese underestimated the cohesion and resolve of an aroused American society and overestimated their own martial prowess as a means of defeating U.S. material superiority. He believes that the failure of deterrence was mutual, and that the descent of the United States and Japan into war contains lessons of great and continuing relevance to American foreign policy and defense decision-makers.

Author : Jeffrey Record
Publisher : Strategic Studies Institute
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Japan
ISBN : 9781584873785

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Japan's Decision for War in 1941 by Jeffrey Record Pdf

Author : Haruo Tohmatsu,H. P. Willmott
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742581265

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A Gathering Darkness by Haruo Tohmatsu,H. P. Willmott Pdf

The United States' involvement in World War II began with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. But for Japan, the conflict began at a much earlier date. This book focuses on Japan and the events in its military history leading up to and including Pearl Harbor. Unique in its perspective, A Gathering Darkness shows how historical events in the 1920s and 1930s steered the country into war with America and its allies. A Gathering Darkness looks at what happened inside Japan in the 1920s to change its outlook on the West. There was a general repudiation of western values by Japanese society, and Japan turned its back on the outside world and an international order that were making life difficult for the country. The treaties made in Washington in the 1920s left Japan with a local supremacy that no other power, including Britain and the United States, could challenge on the account of their lack of forward bases and their commitments that precluded full deployment of forces in the western Pacific. A Gathering Darkness shows why Japan became increasingly militant in the 1930s. The authors look at Japanese military involvement in Manchuria beginning in September 1931. They cover the beginning of Japan's involvement in China in 1937, a conflict in which Japan would up in a deadlock with the China theater of operations in the period 1939–1941. The book then analyzes the first five months of the Pacific War, including the Pearl Harbor strike and the synchronization of offensive operations across more than four thousand miles of ocean. It also investigates the dilemma Japan faced as it realized in early 1942 that the United States was not going to collapse. A Gathering Darkness is the first volume in SR Books' trilogy on the Pacific War. This book offers a fascinating look at the prelude to the Pacific War and the early stages of the conflict that no one interested in World War II, military history, or Japanese history will want to miss.

Author : Peter Tsouras
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 185367446X

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Rising Sun Victorious by Peter Tsouras Pdf

Here is a sideways look at World War II in the Pacific, which gives an exciting view of how the Japanese could have won. Expert military historians examine what would have happened if, for example if the Japanese had conquered India and knocked Britain out of the Pacific War; More...or if Japanese landings in Australia had severed the strategic link between the US and its Southwest Pacific base. The authors, writing as if these world-changing events had really happened, project realistic possibilities based on the true capabilities and circumstances of the forces involved. Rising Sun Victorious is essential and stimulating reading for anyone interested in how chances of history affected the outcome of World War II. Scenarios include: Pearl Harbor: Irredeemable Defeat, by Frank Shirer; The Coral Sea Runs Purple: The Japanese Codes are Cracked, by James Arnold; Nagumo's Luck: The Japanese Find The US Navy First at Midway, by Rick Lindsey; Australian Conquest, by John H. Gill; Guadalcanal Evacuation, by John Burtt; and Victory Rides the Wind: The Kamikaze Prevents Defeat at Kyushu, by Dennis Giangreco.