- Series
- Japan: 1868-1968
- Air Date
- 1968-11-01
- Duration
- 00:28:56
- Episode Description
- The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941, was both a tactical achievement of great brilliance and a strategic blunder of the first magnitude, since it created an enemy with a military potential that Japan simply could not hope to match. By June, 1945, both Japan and the United States were confronted with fundamental questions: the American problem was how to end the war without an invasion of Japan; and the Japanese problem was how to end the war on what the Japanese would regard as reasonable terms. This program looked at the events leading to the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by nuclear weapons as well as Japan's surrender.
- Series Description
- A lecture series on the centennial of the beginning of the modernization of Japan, featuring John M. Maki, University of Massachusetts.
- Subject(s)
- Creator(s)
- WFCR (Radio station : Amherst, Mass.) (Producer)Four College Radio (Producer)
- Contributors
- Maki, John M. (John McGilvrey), 1909- (Lecturer)
- Genre(s)
- Geographic Region(s)
- regions
- Time Period
- 1961-1970
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