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Friday, August 30, 2002

Japanese historian says submarine find proves US started war

TOKYO - A government historian said Thursday that the finding of a Japanese midget submarine sunk just before the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor was evidence that the United States, not Japan, started the war between the two nations.

"The finding provides evidence that it was the Americans who made the first shot, which means the war had already started even before Japan's air attack on Pearl Harbor," said Takehiko Shibata, a historian at the Defense Agency's research institute. "It's been our understanding of how World War II started. Now we have the proof." [...]

And it was just a damned lucky convenient thing the Imperial Navy had three waves of attack aircraft in the air headed toward Pearl Harbor timed just right to strike only an hour after the dirty Americans started shootin' up Hirohito-san's bathtub toys. Why, it's enough to make you want to go invade Manchuria and Korea and China and Burma and the Philipines and New Guinea, ain't it; or maybe behead a few hundred POWs for...for...well, for being POWs.

posted by Terry at 10:00:00 AM

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