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He has made a particular study of the Japanese role in the Second World War, with special reference to the origins of the war in the Pacific.
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Professor Akira Iriye
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BOOKS by Professor Akira Iriye
The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific
Akira Iriye
Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific War: A Brief History with Documents a
Akira Iriye
The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, Volume III: The Globalizing
Akira Iriye
The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History
Akira Iriye
Professor Akira Iriye
- The Start of Japan’s war
- Japanese conduct in the East
- Japanese racism towards the Chinese
- Japanese invasion of Indochina
- American reaction
- Japan’s target
- Pearl Harbour as a surprise
- Rationality of Pearl Harbour
- Nature of the Pearl Harbour attack
- Japanese initial success
- Mentality of the Japanese
- The Emperor
- Kamikaze Attackers
- The Atomic Bomb
- The Japanese Surrender
- Japanese treatment of POWs
- Why study history and WW2
