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 ...

Imperial Japan launched a devastating Sunday morning surprise attack on the U.S. Navy and other military assets at Pearl Harbor, rousing a "sleeping giant" and thrusting an enraged America into World ...

Part I: Meiji restoration: 1868 -- Empires in conflict -- Part II: Japan versus America and the world: 1931-1941 -- Ultra-nationalism and the death of democracy -- Japan versus China: From phoney war ...

Civilians killed. Fires started. Attackers spray streets with machine guns. Underneath a large, bold, capitalized headline that said, “Tokyo Declares War on U.S.,” the Associated Press reported in The ...

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, “a date which will live in infamy,” declared President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, triggered a congressional declaration of war against the ...

On Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese Petty Officer 1st Class Shigenori Nishikaichi, crash-landed his A6M2 Zero fighter on Niihau after participating in the attack on Pearl Harbor. Six days later he was able to ...

Key point: The most prudent course for Imperial Japan would have been to avoid war with the United States entirely. At 7:45 AM on the morning of December 7, 1941 Commander Mitsuo Fuchida gazed ...

As we mark the 80th anniversary of America’s atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it is easy to fixate on its role in precipitating Japan’s unconditional surrender, and thus the end of the ...