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Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific War

First  Edition©1999 Akira Iriye

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Assembling more than 30 primary documents — including proposals, memoranda, decrypted messages, and imperial conferences — 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; essays from American, Japanese, Chinese, Soviet, German, British, and Indonesian perspectives explain how various countries applied pressure, offered assistance, exacerbated rifts, and significantly affected negotiations and Japan’s ultimate decision for war.

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Table of Contents

  Foreword
  Preface
  Maps
    
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: "THE DAY OF INFAMY"
    The War in Europe
    The War in Asia
    The American Dilemma
    Toward Pearl Harbor
    
  The Documents
       Imperial Conference, November 5, 1941
       Plan A and Plan B, November 7 and November 20, 1941
    
    Washington Discussions on China and the Tripartite (Axis) Pact
       Cordell Hull, Memorandum, November 17, 1941
       Joseph W. Ballantine, Memorandum, November 18, 1941
    
    Discussing Plan B
       Joseph W. Ballantine, Memorandum, November 20, 1941
       Joseph W. Ballantine, Memorandum, November 22, 1941
       Joseph W. Ballantine, Memorandum, November 22, 1941
       Draft Proposed Modus Vivendi with Japan, November 22, 1941
       Revised Draft of Proposed Modus Vivendi with Japan, November 24, 1941
       Final Draft of Proposed Modus Vivendi with Japan, November 25, 1941
    
    Discarding the Modus Vivendi
       Franklin D. Roosevelt, Cable to Winston S. Churchill, November 24, 1941
       Winston Churchill, Cable to Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 26, 1941
       Winston Churchill, Cable to Franklin D. Roosevelt, November 30, 1941
    
    The Hull Note
       Cordell Hull, Outline of Proposed Basis for Agreement between the United States and Japan, November 26, 1941
       Joseph W. Ballantine, Memorandum, November 26, 1941
    
    Japan's View of the Hull Note
       Tokyo to Berlin, November 30, 1941
       Washington to Tokyo, December 1, 1941
       Tokyo to Washington, December 1, 1941
       Tokyo to London, December 1, 1941
       Tokyo to Washington, December 1, 1941
       Washington to Tokyo, December 2, 1941
       Washington to Tokyo, December 2, 1941
       Tokyo to Washington, December 2, 1941
       Washington to Tokyo, December 3, 1941
       Washington to Tokyo, December 5, 1941
       Tokyo to Washington, December 6, 1941
       Imperial Conference, December 1, 1941
    
    Japan's December 7 Note
       Kichisaburo Nomura, Memorandum, December 7, 1941
       Joseph W. Ballantine, Memorandum, December 7, 1941
       A Declaration of War That Was Never Sent, December _th, 1941
    Illustrations
    
PART TWO: 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
       Sumio Hatano and Sadao Asada, Japan's Decision to "Go South"
       Minoru Nomura, The Petroleum Question
       Waldo H. Heinrichs, Ambassador Joseph C. Grew and the U.S.-Japanese Crisis
       David Kahn, Pearl Harbor as an Intelligence Failure
       Katsumi Usui, The Chinese-Japanese War
       Wang Xi, China and U.S.-Japanese Relations
       Anthony Best, The British Perspective
       Ken'ichi Gotô, The Indonesian Perspective
       Bernd Martin, The German Perspective
       Alexei M. Filitov, The Soviet Perspective
    
APPENDICES
    
  Chronology of Events Related to Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific War (1931-1941)
  Selected Bibliography
    
  Index

Akira Iriye

Akira Iriye is professor of history at Harvard University, where he was appointed the Charles Warren Professor of American History in 1991. He has also taught at the University of Chicago and served as president of the American Historical Association in 1988. He has published widely on American diplomatic history and American-Asian relations, including Cultural Internationalism and World Order (1997) and Japan and the Wider World (1997).