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Ten Years in Japan

by Joseph C. Grew

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America's Ambassador to Tokyo for the ten years before Pearl Harbor tells the full story of how and why America went to war with Japan. He draws that story from three first-hand sources: his own day-to-day diaries, his personal and official correspondence, and his dispatches to the State Department. From this huge mass of material, he has woven together a chronological narrative of history in the making. President Hoover sent Ambassador Grew to Japan in 1932 because he needed the best diplomat we had to save a desperate situation. The Japanese militarists had already seized Manchuria. They had assassinated half a dozen outstanding moderate statesmen. They were preparing to quit the League, scrap Washington Treaties, and dominate Asia and the Far Pacific. Ambassador Grew's mission had two purposes. One was to uphold American rights in the Far East. The other was to avoid war. The attitude of the Japanese made it impossible for the U.S. to pursue both these policies indefinitely, but Ambassador Grew's diplomacy postponed the showdown, preserved the peace, and upheld America's national honor. Ten Year in Japan tells for the first time the full, inside story of the decade of conflict, intrigue, and surprise that culminated in the inevitable tragedy of war.… (more)
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(first published 1944)
political, economic, and diplomatic events that led to Japan bombing Pearl Harbor.
Drawn from the Diaries & Private & Official Papers of J.C. Grew
Grew was US Ambassador to Japan from 1932 until Pearl Harbor, and was held by the Japanese until mid-1942. This book is a Contemporary Record drawn from his diaries & official papers, & as such, is an important source for an historian.
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Foreword
The Assassin's Shadow Lies Across Japan
Three Years of Calm Before the Storm
From Abortive Revolution to Open War
China Incident
One World: Two Wars
One World: One War
Japanese Officials & Foreign Diplomats

One of my big take-aways from this book is how shaky Japan's pact with Germany was. Once Japan started fighting China in 1937, one of their primary concerns was war with the Soviet Union. When Germany concluded its non-aggression pact with the Soviets, Japan worked to achieve the same thing. Then, just days after concluding the pact Hitler launched Barbarossa, generating turmoil amongst Japanese leadership and resulting in a change of government.
  MasseyLibrary | Mar 7, 2018 |
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America's Ambassador to Tokyo for the ten years before Pearl Harbor tells the full story of how and why America went to war with Japan. He draws that story from three first-hand sources: his own day-to-day diaries, his personal and official correspondence, and his dispatches to the State Department. From this huge mass of material, he has woven together a chronological narrative of history in the making. President Hoover sent Ambassador Grew to Japan in 1932 because he needed the best diplomat we had to save a desperate situation. The Japanese militarists had already seized Manchuria. They had assassinated half a dozen outstanding moderate statesmen. They were preparing to quit the League, scrap Washington Treaties, and dominate Asia and the Far Pacific. Ambassador Grew's mission had two purposes. One was to uphold American rights in the Far East. The other was to avoid war. The attitude of the Japanese made it impossible for the U.S. to pursue both these policies indefinitely, but Ambassador Grew's diplomacy postponed the showdown, preserved the peace, and upheld America's national honor. Ten Year in Japan tells for the first time the full, inside story of the decade of conflict, intrigue, and surprise that culminated in the inevitable tragedy of war.

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