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Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941? Japan had been trying to conquer China for four years. Why pick a fight with unbloodied America? In “Japan 1941,” Japanese-born historian Eri Hotta ...

Thursday, December 7, will mark the 82nd anniversary of one of the most heinous, despicable acts in modern history – Japan’s sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1994 Congress designated December 7 as ...

FILE - This Dec. 7, 1941 image provided by the U.S. War Department made from a Japanese newsreel shows Japanese planes over Hawaii during the attack on Pearl Harbor. The government wanted to get out ...

Access these resources as a member - it's free! Author Eri Hotta talked about Japan in 1941. She discussed Japan's war with China in the years leading up to this time. She described the conditions in ...

THE Japanese people enter a New Year weary of three and a half years of an undeclared war which their army calls holy, and irritated with the sacrifices and deprivations resulting from that struggle.

Dec. 7—Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor 80 years ago was not the knockout punch the Japanese organizers had hoped for, and one historian says it most likely had just the opposite effect. After ...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii – Political assassinations in Tokyo. Censorship and the stifling of dissent. A nation hungry for oil and other natural resources. Kimono-clad women in department stores and ...