The U.S. Navy battleship USS West Virginia sinks after an attack by Japanese aircraft on the Hawaiian port of Pearl Harbor Photo: Reuters
Pearl Harbor: Japanese Veterans And Politicians To Question Causes Of Pacific War -- The Telegraph
An association of veterans and nationalist Japanese politicians and scholars is to hold a conference in Tokyo on Thursday to consider the question of why the United States started the war in the Pacific in 1941.
The conflict is generally understood to have started with the Japanese attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii, on the morning of December 7. But the Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact is marking the 70th anniversary of the raid in Tokyo on Thursday to discuss America's "responsibility" for the war.
"The ultimate goal of the association is to explain the true facts of history, especially when it comes to major events, such as the causes of the Pacific War," Hiromichi Moteki, secretary general of the society, told The Daily Telegraph.
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My Comment: Fortunately .... today's U.S. - Japanese relations are not what they were in the 1930s and 1940s.