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Whose back was stabbed? : FDR's secret war on Japan
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This book aims to change the American-skewed perception of the Pacific War by asking the reader one central question: who actually started the Pacific War? By examining facts recently revealed thro...
This book aims to change the American-skewed perception of the Pacific War by asking the reader one central question: who actually started the Pacific War? By examining facts recently revealed through the declassification of official documents, the decoding of secret communications between the Soviet Union and its operatives, and the findings from American and Japanese writers in recent decades, the author illuminates the role played by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in pushing Japan to the brink of war. The author also delves into the U.S. occupation of Japan immediately after the war. The book reviews the historical background of U.S.-Japan relations from the visit of Commodore Matthew Perry in 1853 to the present day. Utilizing a wealth of Japanese and American materials, the author presents an alternative view of the historical relationship between the two countries. After reviewing nearly two hundred years of history, the author concludes his arguments by urging contemporary Japanese to reexamine their view of history and to be confident that their nation has a bright future. -- from back cover.
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- Creator
- Koichi Mera
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- Language
- English
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- Lanham, Maryland : Hamilton Books, [2017]
- ©2017
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- xiv, 205 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 076186895X, 9780761868958
- OCLC
- ocn979811454
- Includes bibliographical references (page 189-194) and index.
- 1. Japan twice trapped: The Pacific War and beyond -- Japan in two traps -- Recent documents reveal the lies and deceptions by the Allied Nations -- 2. The Tokyo war crimes trials: A travesty of legal justice -- The Tokyo war crimes trials performed without legal basis -- The imposition of the Tokyo war crimes trials by the military occupation forces -- The trials that no one can justify -- Japan was not an "aggressor nation" -- An injustice that even the United States admitted -- Notes -- 3. Japan among competing powers -- The need to reevaluate modern history -- The Russo-Japanese war as the starting point of the Great East Asian war -- The persecution of Japanese immigrants -- The clash of interests in Japan's "Twenty-One demands" -- America's ravenous territorial expansion -- Shackling Japan at the Washington Naval Conference -- The Manchurian incident and Japan's isolation -- Behind-the-scenes maneuvering by the Soviet Comintern -- The Anti-Japanese propaganda campaign of Soong Meiling -- Notes -- 4. The historical implications of Japan's resistance to colonization -- Japan's role in the liberation of Asia -- Japanese reply to Commodore Perry's OPEN DOOR request -- Strained relationships with China, Korea and Russia -- Clash between Japan and China in Korean peninsula -- Japan saved Korea from Russia and China -- The position of the U.S. toward Japan's annexation of Korea -- Independence of various Asian countries and their modernization -- Japanese encouragement to colonized Asian and African people -- The U.S. deceiving the Philippines, and Japan assisting Indonesia -- The ideal of the Great East Asian co-prosperity sphere -- Japan crushed by the U.S. -- The legacy of "Great East Asia co-prosperity sphere" -- Notes -- 5. Japan's challenge to racial discrimination -- The cruelty of interracial war -- Progression of colonial rules by Western powers -- The global environment Japan jumped into -- First appeal for global racial non-discrimination by Japan -- The new regime of Great East Asia for the Asians -- The cruelty of the Second World War -- Impacts of the Great East Asian War on Asian and African countries -- Civil rights movement in the U.S. -- Notes -- 6. President Roosevelt pushed Japan to retaliate -- Rewriting history -- The context of Roosevelt's provocations -- Roosevelt's diplomatic policies -- Driving Japan to the brink -- The Soviet plot behind the Hull note -- The words and deeds of President's Men on the Eve of the Pearl Harbor Attack -- The memoirs of Herbert Hoover -- MacArthur's testimony before the U.S. Senate -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 7. Japan's total defeat in the Information war -- Information is power -- Stalin's global strategy and manipulation of information -- The Second Sino-Japanese war and the Comintern -- The way China's leaders used information -- The fabrication of the Nanking Massacre -- President Roosevelt's intrigues -- Japan's failure to use its home-made radar technology -- The Occupation Army's skillful manipulation of information -- Japan failed in the Information War -- Notes -- 8. American occupation policy of castrating Japan -- Introduction -- Control of the Japanese government -- Trying of war criminals -- Purging of influential persons -- Dissolution of business conglomerates -- Information control -- Confiscation of "undesirable books" -- Imposing a new constitution -- Provision of propaganda information -- Education reforms -- Taxation policies -- Farm land reform -- General impacts -- Notes -- 9. The historical legacy of World War II in Asia -- Two postwar trends -- The establishment of American hegemony -- The founding of the United Nations and the Bretton woods system -- The power of nuclear deterrence -- The USSR's challenge to America and its collapse -- The new struggle for supremacy -- The revival and growth of Japan -- The independence of the former colonies in Africa and Asia -- The secrets of rapid growth that East Asia learned from Japan -- Neglect of defense and the peace stupor -- The plaza accord: Japanese good will meets American Machiavellianism -- Japan's relations with neighboring nations -- The world's admiration for Japan -- Putting an end to the imposed Constitution and to the legacy of the Tokyo trials -- 10. Conclusions: Japan should take pride in her past -- Japan should be proud of not being crushed by the Western powers -- The true defeat took place after the Allied Occupation -- The Japanese must be respected -- Japan must deal with the U.S. on an equal footing -- Japan should walk on her own path