Notes - Hirohito's War

   
Chapter 1 - Empires in Conflict
Chapter 2 - Ultra-nationalism and the Death of Democracy
Chapter 3 - Japan versus China: From Phoney War to Total War
Chapter 4 - Mobilization for War in Asia: America and Japan
Chapter 5 - Pearl Harbor: Yamamoto’s Great Mistake
Chapter 6 - Plan ORANGE and MacArthur’s Philippines Debacle
Chapter 7 - Invasion of Malaya: Yamashita’s ‘Bicycle Blitzkrieg’
Chapter 8 - Fall of Singapore: Churchill’s Sacrificial Pawn
Chapter 9 - Burma Corps: Humiliation Then a Fighting Retreat
Chapter 10 - Dutch East Indies and Japan’s Quest for Oil
Chapter 11 - Limits of Empire: Doolittle and New Military Strategies
Chapter 12 - Battle of the Coral Sea: The First Carrier ‘Shoot-Out’
Chapter 13 - Battle of Midway: Nimitz’s Lucky Day
Chapter 14 - Battles of the Kokoda Trail: Aussies Triumphant
Chapter 15 - Guadalcanal: Battles of Tulagi, Savo Island, Tenaru and East Solomons
Chapter 16 - Guadalcanal: Battle of Edson’s (Bloody) Ridge
Chapter 17 - Guadalcanal: Henderson Field and the Santa Cruz Islands
Chapter 18 - Battles of Buna-Gona-Sanananda: MacArthur’s Lies and Neglect
Chapter 19 - Guadalcanal: Battle of Tassafaronga and Final Reckonings
Chapter 20 - Battle of the Bismarck Sea: Tipping Point of US Air Supremacy
Chapter 21 - Yamamoto Assassinated and the Battle of New Georgia
Chapter 22 - The Huon Peninsula: Operation CARTWHEEL Completed
Chapter 23 - The Isolation of Rabaul and the Starvation of Bougainville
Chapter 24 - The Battles of Arakan, Imphal, and Kohima: Slim Boxes Clever
Chapter 25 - The ICHI-GO Campaign and the Battle of Myitkyina
Chapter 26 - Battle for China: FDR, Chiang, Mao, and ‘Vinegar Joe’
Chapter 27 - Jump to Hollandia: MacArthur’s Greatest Victory
Chapter 28 - Pacific Island Hop: The Gilberts, Marshalls, and Carolines
Chapter 29 - The Great Marianas ‘Turkey Shoot’
Chapter 30 - The Invasions of Saipan, Tinian, and Guam: General Tojo Upended
Chapter 31 - The Battle of Leyte Gulf: ‘Bull’ Halsey’s Mad Dash for Glory
Chapter 32 - “I Have Returned”: MacArthur Regains the Philippines
Chapter 33 - The Battle of the Irrawaddy River: Slim’s ‘Mandalay Feint’
Chapter 34 - Iwo Jima: The Iconic Battle of the Pacific War
Chapter 35 - The Battle of Okinawa: Slaughter of the Innocents
Chapter 36 - LeMay’s B-29 Superfortresses over Japan: Cities in Ashes
Chapter 37 - Potsdam, Hirohito, and the Atom Bomb
APPENDIX A - SUBMARINES: THE UNDERSEA WAR
APPENDIX B - RAW MATERIALS AND LOGISTICS
APPENDIX C - ECONOMICS OF THE PACIFIC WAR
APPENDIX D - THE JAPANESE EMPIRE – FROM CO-PROSPERITY TO TYRANNY
APPENDIX E - TYPHOONS AND DIVINE WINDS: KAMIKAZE
APPENDIX K - THE BATTLE OF HONG KONG
APPENDIX L - THE BATTLES OF ATTU AND KISKA
APPENDIX N - THE ROLE OF OIL IN THE PACIFIC WAR
APPENDIX O - JAPANESE–SOVIET CONFLICT IN SIBERIA, MONGOLIA AND MANCHURIA

APPENDIX D – THE JAPANESE EMPIRE – FROM CO-PROSPERITY TO TYRANNY


  1. Duus, Peter, Ramon Myers, and Mark Peattie, Editors, The Japanese Wartime Empire (Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1996) p.xxiv
  2. Ibid., p.xxiv
  3. Duus, from Duus, Myers and Peattie, The Japanese Wartime Empire, p.xli
  4. Ekert, Carter J., Total War, Industrialization, and Social Change in Late Colonial Korea, from Duus, Myers and Peattie, p.33
  5. Ibid., p.33
  6. Chou, Wan-you, The Kominka Movements in Taiwan and Korea, Comparisons and Interpretations, from Duus, Peattie and Myers, , p.41
  7. Ibid., p.41
  8. Ibid., p.41
  9. Young, Louise, Imagined Empires, The Cultural Construction of Manchukuo, from Duus, Myers and Peattie, p.96
  10. Ibid., p.96
  11. Matsutaka, Tak, Managing Occupied Manchuria, 1931-1934, from Duus, Myers and Peattie, p.122
  12. Peattie, Mark, Nanshin the Southward Advance, 1931 – 1941, As a Prelude to Japanese Occupation of South East Asia, from Duus, Myers and Peattie, p.237
  13. Ibid., p.237
  14. Reynolds, Bruce E., Anomaly or Model? Independent Thailand’s Role in Japan’s Asian Strategy, 1941- 1943, from Duus, Myers and Peattie p.271
  15. Goto, Kenichi, Cooperation, Submission and Resistance, of Indigenous Elites of South East Asia in the Wartime Empire, from Duus, Peattie and Myers, p.280
  16. Ibid., p.280
  17. Ibid., p.280
  18. Ibid., p.281
  19. Ibid., p.286
  20. Ibid., p.286
  21. Ibid., p.289
  22. Ibid., p.292
  23. Felton, Mark, Japan’s Gestapo, Murder, Mayhem and Torture in Wartime Asia (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2009) p.23
  24. Ibid., p.23
  25. MacArthur, Surviving the Sword, Prisoners of the Japanese in the Far East 1942-1945 (Random House, New York, 2005) p.326
  26. Ibid., p.327
  27. Felton, Japan’s Gestapo, p.41
  28. Hicks, George, The “Comfort Women”, from George, Duus Myers and Peattie, p.307
  29. Ibid., p.310
  30. Rees, Laurence, Horror in the East, The Brutal Struggle in Asia and the Pacific in World War II, p.85
  31. Felton, Japan’s Gestapo, p.178
  32. Ibid., p.146
  33. Japanese Instructions on how to torture
  34. MacArthur, Surviving the Sword, p.69
  35. Rees, Horror in the East, p.74
  36. Ibid., p.76
  37. Ibid., p.83
  38. Ibid., p.146
  39. Ibid., p.77
  40. Felton, Japan’s Gestapo, p.98
  41. Ibid., p.107
  42. MacArthur, Surviving the Sword, p.30
  43. Ibid., p.188
  44. Ibid., p.397
  45. Ibid., p.399
  46. MacArthur, Surviving the Sword, p.396
  47. Ibid., p.66
  48. Ibid., p.69
  49. Ibid., p.77
  50. Ibid., p.79
  51. Ibid., p.79
  52. Ibid., p.99
  53. Ibid., p.86
  54. Felton, Japan’s Gestapo, p.81
  55. MacArthur, Surviving the Sword, p.170
  56. Ibid., p.172
  57. Gold, Hal, Unit 731 (Tuttle Publishing, North Clarendon, 2007) 206
  58. Ibid., p.207
  59. Rees, Laurence, Horror in the East, The Brutal Struggle in Asia and the Pacific in World War II, p.17
  60. Ibid., p.38
  61. Ibid., p.39
  62. Ibid., p.39
  63. Ibid., p.28
  64. Ibid., p.29
  65. Ibid., p.89
  66. Ibid., p.93
  67. Ibid., p.95
  68. Ibid., p.103
  69. Ibid., p.103
  70. Clements, Jonathan, Samurai: A New History of the Warrior Elite [Constable and Robinson, 2010] p.280
  71. Gold, Unit 731, p.40
  72. Ibid., p.42
  73. Ibid., p.52
  74. Ibid., p.162
  75. Felton, Japan’s Gestapo, p.121
  76. Ibid., p.127
  77. Gold, Unit 731, p.220
  78. Ibid., p.240
  79. Ibid., p.163
  80. Ibid., p.166
  81. Ibid., p.106
  82. Felton, Japan’s Gestapo, p.129
  83. Mishra Pankraj, From the Ruins of Empire (2013) p.248
  84. Ibid., p.253
  85. Ibid., p.279