Notes - Hirohito's War

   
Chapter 1 - Empires in Conflict
Chapter 2 - Ultra-nationalism and the Death of Democracy
Chapter 3 - Japan versus China: From Phoney War to Total War
Chapter 4 - Mobilization for War in Asia: America and Japan
Chapter 5 - Pearl Harbor: Yamamoto’s Great Mistake
Chapter 6 - Plan ORANGE and MacArthur’s Philippines Debacle
Chapter 7 - Invasion of Malaya: Yamashita’s ‘Bicycle Blitzkrieg’
Chapter 8 - Fall of Singapore: Churchill’s Sacrificial Pawn
Chapter 9 - Burma Corps: Humiliation Then a Fighting Retreat
Chapter 10 - Dutch East Indies and Japan’s Quest for Oil
Chapter 11 - Limits of Empire: Doolittle and New Military Strategies
Chapter 12 - Battle of the Coral Sea: The First Carrier ‘Shoot-Out’
Chapter 13 - Battle of Midway: Nimitz’s Lucky Day
Chapter 14 - Battles of the Kokoda Trail: Aussies Triumphant
Chapter 15 - Guadalcanal: Battles of Tulagi, Savo Island, Tenaru and East Solomons
Chapter 16 - Guadalcanal: Battle of Edson’s (Bloody) Ridge
Chapter 17 - Guadalcanal: Henderson Field and the Santa Cruz Islands
Chapter 18 - Battles of Buna-Gona-Sanananda: MacArthur’s Lies and Neglect
Chapter 19 - Guadalcanal: Battle of Tassafaronga and Final Reckonings
Chapter 20 - Battle of the Bismarck Sea: Tipping Point of US Air Supremacy
Chapter 21 - Yamamoto Assassinated and the Battle of New Georgia
Chapter 22 - The Huon Peninsula: Operation CARTWHEEL Completed
Chapter 23 - The Isolation of Rabaul and the Starvation of Bougainville
Chapter 24 - The Battles of Arakan, Imphal, and Kohima: Slim Boxes Clever
Chapter 25 - The ICHI-GO Campaign and the Battle of Myitkyina
Chapter 26 - Battle for China: FDR, Chiang, Mao, and ‘Vinegar Joe’
Chapter 27 - Jump to Hollandia: MacArthur’s Greatest Victory
Chapter 28 - Pacific Island Hop: The Gilberts, Marshalls, and Carolines
Chapter 29 - The Great Marianas ‘Turkey Shoot’
Chapter 30 - The Invasions of Saipan, Tinian, and Guam: General Tojo Upended
Chapter 31 - The Battle of Leyte Gulf: ‘Bull’ Halsey’s Mad Dash for Glory
Chapter 32 - “I Have Returned”: MacArthur Regains the Philippines
Chapter 33 - The Battle of the Irrawaddy River: Slim’s ‘Mandalay Feint’
Chapter 34 - Iwo Jima: The Iconic Battle of the Pacific War
Chapter 35 - The Battle of Okinawa: Slaughter of the Innocents
Chapter 36 - LeMay’s B-29 Superfortresses over Japan: Cities in Ashes
Chapter 37 - Potsdam, Hirohito, and the Atom Bomb
APPENDIX A - SUBMARINES: THE UNDERSEA WAR
APPENDIX B - RAW MATERIALS AND LOGISTICS
APPENDIX C - ECONOMICS OF THE PACIFIC WAR
APPENDIX D - THE JAPANESE EMPIRE – FROM CO-PROSPERITY TO TYRANNY
APPENDIX E - TYPHOONS AND DIVINE WINDS: KAMIKAZE
APPENDIX K - THE BATTLE OF HONG KONG
APPENDIX L - THE BATTLES OF ATTU AND KISKA
APPENDIX N - THE ROLE OF OIL IN THE PACIFIC WAR
APPENDIX O - JAPANESE–SOVIET CONFLICT IN SIBERIA, MONGOLIA AND MANCHURIA

CHAPTER 2 – ULTRANATIONALISM AND THE DEATH OF DEMOCRACY

1            Hotta, Eri, Japan 1941, Countdown to Infamy (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2013) p.126

2            Ibid., p.100

3            Ibid., p.101

4             Iguchi, Takeo, Demystifying Pearl Harbor: A New Perspective from Japan (I-House Press, 2010) p.39

5             Bergamini, David, Japan’s Imperial Conspiracy; How the Emperor Hirohito Led Japan into War against the West (Edwin Mellen Press, 2006) p.419

6              Ibid., p.421

7             Hotta, Eri, Pan-Asianism and Japan’s War 1931 - 1945 (Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2007) p.100

8             Bergamini, Japan’s Imperial Conspiracy, p.430

9             Ibid., p.431

10           Ibid., p.427

11           Ogata, Sadako, Defiance in Manchuria, The Making of Japanese Foreign Policy (University of California Press, 1964) p.171-172

12           Van der Vat, Dan, Pacific Campaign: The US – Japanese Naval War 1941- 1945 (Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, New York, 1992) p.52

13           Li, Peter, Japanese War Crimes: The Search for Justice (Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, Fifth Print 2009: First Publication 2003) p.63

14           Barnhart, Michael, Japan Prepares for Total War, The Search for Economic Security 1919 – 1941 (Cornell University, 1987) p.19

15           Kawaha, Toshiaki, Hirohito and his Times (Kodansha International, 1990) p.108

16           Utley, Jonathan G., Going to War with Japan 1937 – 1941 (Fordham University Press, New York, 2005) p.91

17           Saaler, Sven and Christopher W. A. Szpilman, eds., Pan-Asianism, A Documentary History, Volume 2: 1920 – Present: Szpilman, Kanokogi Kazunobu: Imperial Asia, 1937, in Pan-Asianism: A Documentary History, Volume 2: 1920 – Present (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011) p.257

18           Barnhart, Japan Prepares for Total War, p.55

19           Ibid., p.74

20           Szpilman, Kanokogi Kazunobu, p.242

21           Ibid., p.243

22           Sven Saaler and J. Victor Koschmann, eds., Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History, colonialism, Regionalism and Borders: Christopher W.A. Szpilman, Between Pan-Asianism and Nationalism, Mitsukawa Kametaro and his campaign to reform Japan and liberate Asia (Routledge, New York, 2007) p.92-93

23           Saaler and Szpilman: Szpilman, Kanokogi Kazunobu, p.242

24           Ibid., p.243

25           Reynolds, E. Bruce, ed., Japan in the Fascist Era: Christopher W.A. Szpilman, Fascist and Quasi-Fascist Ideas in Interwar Japan 1918-1941 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) p.75

26           Saaler and Koschmann, eds., Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History: Szpilman, Mitsukawa Kametaro (Routledge, 2007) p.92

27            Ibid., p.93

28            Ibid., p.96

29             Reynolds, ed., Japan in the Fascist Era: Szpilman, Fascist and Quasi-Fascist Ideas, p.75    

30             Ibid., p.79

31             Nagai, Hisomu (1946)

32             Reynolds, ed., Japan in the Fascist Era: Szpilman, Fascist and Quasi-Fascist Ideas Szpilman, p.84

33             Ibid., p.81

34             Ibid., p.98            

35             Szpilman, Kita Ikki and the Politics of Coercion, p.474          

36               Reynolds, ed., Japan in the Fascist Era: Szpilman, Fascist and Quasi-Fascist Ideas Szpilman, p.77

37             Szpilman, Kita Ikki and the Politics of Coercion, p.479

38             Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States, Volume 2 Grover Cleveland (1885) to Barack H. Obama (2009) (Applewood Books, Bedford, Massachusetts, 2009) p.87

39             Colvin, Nomonhan, p.220

40             Hotta, Pan-Asianism, p.97

41             Ibid., p.167

42             Saaler and Szpilman: Szpilman, Kanokogi Kazunobu, p.267

43             Ibid., p.95

44             Saaler and Koschmann, eds., Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History: Szpilman, Mitsukawa Kametaro (Routledge, 2007) p.98

45             Ibid., p.98

46             Hotta, Pan-Asianism, p.39

47             Ibid., p.39

48             Ibid., p.95

49             Ibid., p.101

50             Saaler and Szpilman: Szpilman, Kanokogi Kazunobu, p.251

51             Hotta, Pan-Asianism, p.121

52             Saaler and Szpilman: Szpilman, Kanokogi Kazunobu, p.253

53             Ibid., p.262

54             Ibid., p.253

55             Bergamini, Japan’s Imperial Conspiracy, p.67

56             Saaler and Koschmann, eds., Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History: Szpilman, Mitsukawa Kametaro (Routledge, 2007) p.99

57             Hotta, Pan-Asianism, p.166

58             Ibid., p.152

59             Ibid., p.103

60             Reynolds, ed., Japan in the Fascist Era, p.142

61             Irokwawa, Daikichi, The Age of Hirohito, In Search of Modern Japan (The Free Press, New York, 1995) p.25

62             Ibid., p.17

63             Ibid., p.19

64             Dower, Japan in War and Peace, p.34

65             Reynolds, ed., Japan in the Fascist Era, Walter Skya, Fascist Encounters: German Nazis and Japanese Shinto Ultranationalists, p.58

66            Ibid., p.148

67            Ibid., p.49

68            Buruma, The Wages of Guilt, Memories of War in Germany and Japan (Plume, 1995) p.9-10

69            Reynolds, Japan in the Fascist Era: Skya, Fascist Encounters, p.149

70            Ibid., p.149

71           Duus, Peter, ed., The Cambridge History of Japan: Volume 6 The Twentieth Century, Duus, and Mitani, Taichiro, The Establishment of Party Cabinets (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1988, 9th Printing) p.89

72           Duus, ed., The Cambridge History of Japan: Duus and Mitani, The Establishment of Party Cabinets 1898 - 1932, p.64

73           Duus, ed., The Cambridge History of Japan, Berger, Gordon, Politics and Mobilisation in Japan 1931 - 1945, p.112

74           Duus, ed., The Cambridge History of Japan: Berger, Politics and Mobilisation in Japan 1931 – 1945, p.113

75           Sims, Richard, Japanese Political History Since the Meiji Renovation (Hurst & Co., 2002) p.194

76           Sims, Japanese Political History, p.191

77           Duus, ed., The Cambridge History of Japan: Duus and Mitani, The Establishment of Party Cabinets 1898 - 1932, p.88

78           Hoare, J.E., Tadashi Kuramatsu, A Great Ordinary Man: Saito Makato (1858 -1936) and Anglo Japanese Relations (Japan Library, 1999) p.194

79           Goldstein, Eric and John Maurer, Editor, The Washington Conference, 1921-1922, Naval Rivalry, East Asian Stability and the road to Pearl Harbor (Routledge, 2012, First Published Frank Cass 1994) p.164

80           Bergamini, Japan’s Imperial Conspiracy, p.641-2

81           Ibid., p.642

82           Ibid., p.646

83           Kawaha, Hirohito and his Times, p.77

84           Toland, John, Rising Sun, The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire 1936-1945 (Random House, New York, 1970: Reprinted 2003) p.30

85           Bergamini, Japan’s Imperial Conspiracy, p.659

86           Berger, A Cambridge History of Japan, p.122

87           Hotta, Japan 1941, p.119

88           Ibid., p.121

89           Chang, Yung, and Halliday Jon, Mao, The Unknown Story (Jonathan Cape, 2005) p.181

90           Fenby, Jonathan, China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power (Penguin, London, 2001) p.271

91           Chang and Halliday, Mao, The Unknown Story, p.181

92           Sun Tzu, The Art of War (Oxford University Press)

93           Chang and Halliday, Mao, The Unknown Story, p.215

94           Pakula, Hannah, The Last Empress, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern China (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2010) p.251

95           Ibid., p.251

96           Taylor, The Generalissimo, Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China (Harvard University Press, Boston, 2011) p.124

97           Snow, Edgar, Red Star over China (Garden City Pub. Co., 1939) p.65

98           Chang and Halliday, Mao, The Unknown Story, p.187-8

99           Ibid., p.189

100         Dillon, Terrance, Rangoon to Kohima (Regimental Headquarters, The Gloucester Regiment, 1978) p.225

101         Pakula, The Last Empress, p.257

102         Taylor, Jay, The Generalissimo, Chiang Kai Shek and the Struggle for Modern China (First Harvard University Press, Paperback Edition, 2011) p.129

103           Mao and Halliday, Mao, The Unknown Story, p.193

104           Pakula, The Last Empress, p.256

105           Fenby, China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, p.272

106           Taylor, Generalissimo, p.142

107           Irokwawa, Daikichi, The Age of Hirohito, In Search of Modern Japan (The Free Press, New York, 1995) p.22