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(More customer reviews)Not many non-Japanese are aware of the intense debate still ongoing in Japan over the blizzard of coded message traffic to Japan's Washington embassy on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Professor Iguchi, who was in Washington on the day the war began (as a schoolboy) has devoted years of efforts at primary and secondary research in order to piece together what transpired in the hours leading up to the attack on Hawaii. The contents are meticulously and dispassionately conveyed, and --- unusual for many works by Japanese --- Iguchi does not pull his punches when it comes to pointing fingers at those involved in the cover-up, one aspect of which was a concentrated effort to hold diplomats at the D.C. embassy responsible for the failure to notify U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull of the breaking off of negotiations before the attack commenced. For serious scholars of the Pacific theater in World War 2, this work belongs on the shelf beside Gordon Prange and John Toland.
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