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What about the post-Meiji period? The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 was just a misunderstood act of extending an olive branch?
by jazzyk 10y ago
What about the post-Meiji period?
The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 was just a misunderstood act of extending an olive branch?
- nihonde 10y ago(Again my views only.) I think it was a direct reaction to the aggression of 1853. It was preceded by posturing/maneuvering in the South Pacific if I'm not mistaken. To be clear, I don't think it was justified or proportionate, but I do think those events were closely linked in that Japan saw Americans as encroaching on their sovereignty and an imminent threat from the "East".
- SEJeff 10y agoMuch like the Norsemen were misunderstood by the Celts/Gaels in Ireland (whom they slaughtered)