For Japanese, the Pearl Harbor attack wasn’t the start of war, but the continuation of a Japanese struggle to remain free of outside influence that had been going on since Commodore Matthew Perry of the U.S. Navy sailed into Tokyo Bay in 1853 and ordered the Japanese to open their country to trade with the outside world. Current Japanese textbooks have little to say on the attack itself, 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 that were going on at the time. mcclatchydc/2014/12/06/249222_in-japan-pearl-harbor-is-seen.html?sp=/99/100/&rh=1#storylink=cpy
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 03:06:20 +0000
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