Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific War
A Brief History with Documents and EssaysFirst Edition| ©1999 Akira Iriye
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 introductio...
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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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
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
The Hull Note
Cordell Hull, Outline of Proposed Basis for Agreement between the United States and Japan, 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
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
PART TWO: INTRODUCTION: PEARL HARBOR IN GLOBAL CONTEXT
The Soviet Union
The British Commonwealth
The Dutch East Indies
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
Chronology of Events Related to Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific War (1931-1941)
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).