Shinjuwan No Shinjitsu Rekishi Shusei Shugi Ha Nani Wo Kakushita Ka (Heibonsha Shinsho)

[Machine Translation] Why did Japan surprise Pearl Harbor? The accepted explanation is that Japan had no intention to do so, but the delay in notifying the U.S. resulted in the surprise attack. However, how much of this "historical fact" is true? A detailed examination of the process leading up to the outbreak of war reveals the deception of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Imperial Japanese Army, which placed the responsibility for the war on the embassy staff on the ground. This book examines the Pearl Harbor raid as the starting point of historical revisionism, and examines the fallacies of historical facts and the structure of mythologization.

日本はなぜ真珠湾を奇襲したか。定説になっているのは、日本にその意図はなかったが、米国への通告文書の手交が遅れたため、結果的に奇襲になったという釈明だ。だが、その「史実」はどこまで本当だろうか。開戦への過程を仔細に確かめると、現場の駐米大使館員に責任を押しつけた外務省と大本営の欺瞞が見え隠れする。歴史修正主義の原点として真珠湾奇襲を捉え、史実の誤謬と神話化の構造にメスを入れる。