There has long been speculation in some camps, outright conspiracy theory in others, that the Pearl Harbor bombing was a False Flag operation to get us involved in WWII. At the very least, it appears that the Japanese disagree with the traditional US account of the events leading up to the deadly attack 73 years ago today ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In Japan, Pearl Harbor is just another WWII battle By ALBERT SIEGEL McClatchy Foreign Staff (TNS) TOKYO — For Americans, Sunday is the 73rd anniversary of the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, the air raid that drew the United States into World War II. But the attack, which took place Dec. 8 Tokyo time, will pass largely unremarked in Japan. For Japanese, the Pearl Harbor attack wasn’t the start of war, but the continuation of a struggle to remain free of outside influence that had been going on since U.S. Navy Commodore Matthew Perry sailed into Tokyo Bay in 1853 and ordered the Japanese to open their country to trade with the outside world. Until then, contact with outsiders was a crime punishable by death. Current Japanese textbooks say little about the attack, and Japanese, questioned about the subject, say they know little of what took place. What they do know places the attack, which involved more than 300 aircraft, two bombing waves and six aircraft carriers, in the context of the many wars going on at the time. Mayako Shibata, a university student, said she can’t remember any class where she learned why the attack on Pearl Harbor happened. Other Japanese declined to talk on the record about Pearl Harbor. At the Yasukuni Shrine, which memorializes Japan’s war dead, a timeline leaves the impression that Japan was forced into the attack by the U.S.: “At the White House, the President, Secretary of State and Secretaries of War and the Navy meet and discuss war with Japan,” the text says. “They explore means to maneuver them (Japan) into the position of firing the first shot without allowing much danger to ourselves.” The explanation then says President Franklin Roosevelt told subordinates “to prepare for a surprise attack, which is likely to occur on December 1.”
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 19:25:12 +0000
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