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• Originally published 12/10/2014

  Historian seeks to clear embassy of Pearl Harbor 'sneak attack' infamy

  Takeo Iguchi, a professor emeritus at Shobi University, has devoted his research to reversing a prevalent view in Japan that the embassy was to blame. It was the military.

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• Originally published 04/07/2014

  How FDR prepared for a war he thought might be inevitable

  "From Monday, December 1, through Thursday, December 4, new Magic intercepts conveyed Tokyo’s instructions to its diplomatic representatives in London, Singapore, Manila, Hong Kong, Washington, and various Chinese cities to destroy their codes and other publications."

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• Originally published 10/28/2013

  The New York Times recycles John Ford Pearl Harbor footage

  Historian Andrew J. Bacevich calls out the Times for using "faked" footage.

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• Originally published 09/24/2013

  Paper crane folded by Hiroshima girl who died of leukemia to go on display at Pearl Harbor

  Sadako Sasaki’s family donated the origami crane to promote peace and overcome the tragedies of the past.

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• Originally published 09/10/2013

  Historians seek unrecovered Japanese soldiers from Pearl Harbor attack

  What happened to the 29 Japanese airmen and 4 sailors whose remains were never recovered?

• Originally published 04/23/2013

  Yamamoto's unsettled legacy

  NAGAOKA, Japan – Seven decades after the death of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in an aerial ambush in the South Pacific, Japan is still struggling with how to remember the charismatic naval commander who opposed war with the United States, but nonetheless planned the deadly attack on Pearl Harbor.With tensions once again growing in East Asia and public acceptance of Japan’s military forces beginning to rise, Japan could be ready for a more open discussion of the war era – and its leaders.“They don’t teach about this period in high schools, so people under 50 years old don’t know much about it. But because of the Senkaku problem, people are beginning to get interested,” said Yukoh Watanabe, an amateur naval historian who attended a private memorial service in Yamamoto’s hometown last week....

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• Originally published 06/13/2014

  A Soviet Devil in the Capitalist Details

  The other day I began scrutinizing Thomas Piketty’s data on capital to national income ratios and particularly the twice-published Figure 5.8/12.4. This graph provides an important piece of evidence for Piketty’s theoretical argument in Capital in the 21st Century, and particularly his contention that “a country that saves a lot and grows slowly will over the long run accumulate an enormous stock of capital (relative to its income), which can in turn have a significant effect on the social structure and distribution of wealth.” This “law” of capital accumulation, along with Piketty’s much quoted formula r>g, is supposed to demonstrate the central argument of his book wherein returns on capital outpace income, leading to sustained wealth disparity.

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• Originally published 12/17/2013

  On Creating a Groundbreaking Historical Novel

  Full article: http://hnn.us/article/150732