scholarly journals Prelude to Pearl Harbor. The United States Navy and the Far East, 1921-1931

1963 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
John P. Campbell ◽  
Gerald E. Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Navy ◽  
Far East ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pearl Harbor ◽  
The Far East

The Desperate Diplomat Revisited

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 303-333
Author(s):  
Masako R. Okura
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Prior Knowledge ◽  
Far East ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pearl Harbor ◽  
Military Action ◽  
Original Memoir ◽  
International Military Tribunal ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Military Tribunal

This article, an elaboration on The Desperate Diplomat (2016), reexamines Japanese Special Envoy Kurusu Saburo’s mission to the United States before Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, presenting a new “concurring opinion” in support of his innocence. The u.s. government firmly believed that Kurusu had been informed of the impending attack prior to coming to the United States and thus acted as a smoke screen. And so, the myth of the deceitful ambassador was born. Nevertheless, Kurusu insisted that he had no prior knowledge of Japan’s military action. Misunderstanding of his role in the Pearl Harbor attack and harsh remarks about it upset him. Utilizing Kurusu’s unpublished and previously unused materials in both Japanese and English housed in the National Diet Library in Tokyo, records from the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, and The Desperate Diplomat, based on his original memoir, this article helps Kurusu tell his side of the story to initiate scholarly debate on this insufficiently researched diplomat. This reassessment also presents excerpts from Kurusu’s unpublished personal correspondences with E. Stanley Jones, Bernard M. Baruch, and Joseph C. Grew.

Cultural Brokers in Interwar Orientalism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeehyun Lim
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Far East ◽  
The United States ◽  
Intellectual Tradition ◽  
Cultural Brokers ◽  
Racial Category ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The Face

Chapter one examines the formation of Asian American writers in the era of Asian exclusion through a comparative analysis of Younghill Kang’s and Carlos Bulosan’s responses to Orientalism in their works. As legal exclusion created the racial category of Asian in the United States, migrant Asian writers faced the challenge of creating modern Asian subjects in literary English. Cultural brokers between Orientalist images of their countries of origin and the modern experiences of Asian migrants in the United States, Kang and Bulosan tested the boundaries of English to represent migrant experiences lived in languages other than English. As a heterogeneous cultural epistemology, Orientalism placed different constraints on Kang, who contended with the Orientalist valorization of the Far East, and Bulosan, who resorted to the Filipino intellectual tradition of the ilustrado in the face of Orientalist primitivism.

Reading Manila, Thinking Wiesbaden

2019 ◽  
pp. 127-138
Author(s):  
James DiCrocco
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Army ◽  
Far East ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The Other ◽  
Resource Constrained ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Difficult Situations

This is a comparison of the difficult situations facing two different American armies, one in the Philippines in 1941-1942 and the other in contemporary Europe, headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany. Although there are many differences between the two situations confronting the two armies, there also are similarities. Both armies were understrength, consisting of about 30,000 US soldiers. Both operated in a resource-constrained environment. Both had to prepare to contend with large, aggressive powers in the region. Both armies were responsible for the defense of a broad regional expanse. The United States Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE) ultimately were ill-prepared when the Japanese struck the Philippines on 8 December 1941. It is important that United States Army Europe (USAREUR) and its allies do not meet a fate similar to what their comrades in arms did in 1942.

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