SDHF Newsletter No.37: The US, Not Japan, Was The Aggressor

SDHF Newsletter No.37: The US, Not Japan, Was The Aggressor

December 8, 2011

Gen. Douglas MacArthur testified before the Senate Armed Services and Foreign
Relations Committee, 82nd Congress, on May3. 1951. He said that “They [the
Japanese leadership] feared that if those supplies [raw materials] were cut off,
there would be 10 to 12 million people unoccupied [unemployed] in Japan. Their
purpose, therefore, in going to war was largely dictated by security.”

Clearly, MacArthur, who held the higest authority over the Tokyo Trials, denied
the Trials’ final judgment that Japan was the “aggressor” in the Pacific War.

Japan has been called the aggressor since the Pearl Harbor attack is generally
characterized as a “sneak attack”. However, it was not Japan that decided to
strike the first blow but the United States. On July 23, 1941, five months prior
to the Pearl Harbor attack, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed JB355, a plan
to bomb Japan via China during Japan-US negotiation. (The document that verifies
this fact is cited as within the essay.)

It is definitely clear that the U.S., not Japan, was the aggressor. This paper
comprehensively proves this fact.

*Summary: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/82_S2.pdf
*Full text: https://www.sdh-fact.com/CL02_1/82_S4.pdf

Questions are welcome.

Sincerely,

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