TITLE

The mind of Japan

AUTHOR(S)

Fallows, J.

PUB. DATE

December 1991

SOURCE

U.S. News & World Report;12/2/91, Vol. 111 Issue 23, p32

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Discusses why Tokyo militarists went to war at Pearl Harbor with the US, the world's most powerful country, and how that legacy reverberates today. Background on the war; Why the Japanese leaders decided to attack Pearl Harbor; The difference between the Japan of 1991 and that of half a century past; The principal turning points in this historic drama are captured in a sequence of dates from 1853 to 1991.

ACCESSION #

9112022044

 

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