SDHF Newsletter No.60 Japanese Americans’ View of Japan

Japanese Americans’ View of Japan and Historical Awareness
July 23, 2013

Professor Kojima and Japanese American writer Shinomoto discuss Japanese Americans’ view of Japan and their historical awareness of Japan’s political and military actions, specifically in the days before and during WWII. Just like the Japanese who have endured self-flagellation by insisting that they were the aggressor in those days and therefore have continued to apologize and make amends for their alleged acts of aggression, Americans have a distorted view of history, in which they claim they had no choice but to fight Japan in the Pacific because they were attacked by an aggressive state.
The discussion leads to the conclusion that while it is necessary to liberate the Japanese from this distorted view of history, it is also important to correct Japanese Americans’ inaccurate historical knowledge of Japan’s actions before and during WWII.
Prof. Kojima refers to Mr. Henry Stokes’s article, “The Road from Perry’s Arrival to Pearl Harbor: Why America started a War against Japan?”, which is uploaded at our Website, in his discussion: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/93_S4.pdf
He also suggests that the following two books are important in discussing this subject:
*Charles Beard, President Roosevelt and the Coming of the War, 1941: Appearances and Realities
*Herbert Hoover, Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover’s Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath (Hoover Institution Press)
Portraits with corresponding profiles were drawn and written by Prof. Kojima to enhance the visual experience of the reader.
The full text and author profile can be read here:
*Text: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/101_S4.pdf
*Author profile: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/101_S3.pdf

Sincerely,

MOTEKI Hiromichi, Secretary General
for KASE Hideaki, Chairman
Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact