TY  - BOOK
AU  - AUER James E
ED  - The Yomiuri Shimbun
TI  - Who was responsible?: from Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor  
SN  - 4643060123 (hbk) :
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Tokyo
PB  - Yomiouri Shimbun
KW  - JAPAN
KW  - WAR CRIMES
KW  - SINO JAPANESE WAR
KW  - SECOND WORLD WAR
KW  - CAUSES OF WAR
N2  - Based on a series of articles that first appeared in The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest selling newspaper between August 2005 and August 2006. The book sets out to provide the first ever Japanese explanation for the war with China and the Pacific War, and tries to identify who was responsible for the events that had such catastrophic results not least for Japan itself. Among the conclusions are: that a lack of command and control from the highest levels resulted in field officers taking and implementing decisions, that Japan's military could in effect operate without any meaningful civilian control, the media supported war, and human rights were given low priority. Full text of various historical documents are given in numerous appendices
ER  -