Gruhl's narrative makes clear why Japan's World War II
aggression still touches deep emotions with East Asians and Western
ex-prisoners of war, and why there is justifiable sensitivity to
the way modern Japan has dealt with this legacy. Knowledge of the
enormity of Japan's total war is also necessary to assess the
United States' and her allies' policies toward Japan, and their
reactions to its actions, extending from Manchuria in 1931 to
Hiroshima in 1945. Gruhl takes the view that World War II started
in 1931 when Japan, crowded and poor in raw materials but with a
sense of military invincibility, saw empire as her salvation and
invaded China.
Japan's imperial regime had volatile ambitions but limited
resources, thus encouraging them to unleash a particularly brutal
offensive against the peoples of Asia and surrounding ocean
islands. Their 1931 to 1945 invasions and policies further added to
Asia's pre-war woes, particularly in China, by badly disrupting
marginal economies, leading to famines and epidemics. Altogether,
the victims of Japan's World War Two aggression took many forms and
were massive in number.
Gruhl offers a survey and synthesis of the historical literature
and documentation, statistical data, as well as personal interviews
and first-hand accounts to provide a comprehensive overview
analysis. The sequence of diplomatic and military events leading to
Pearl Harbor, as well as those leading to the U.S. decision to drop
the atom bomb, are explored here as well as Japan's war crimes and
postwar revisionist/apologist views regarding them. This book will
be of intense interest to Asian specialists, and those concerned
with human rights issues in a historical context.
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