(Pacific Ocean off Kanto Plain, Japan)United States Note to Japan November 26, 1941
(Note des États-Unis au Japon le 26 novembre 1941)
Now the United States is under heavy winter storms, according to news reports.
Indeed, mankind should fight the violent nature but not other races, people, or individuals.
Truly, before Christmas, we have to face and conquer the past storm of fires and irons.
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If you are not familiar with the so-called Hull Note issued by United States to Japan on November 26, 1941, preceding the Attack at Pearl Harbor, please refer to the following:
http://www007.upp.so-net.ne.jp/togo/dic/data/hullnote.html
What should be noted are the following parts:
"... 3. The Government of Japan will withdraw all military, naval, air and police forces from China and from Indochina. ...
5. Both Governments will endeavor to obtain the agreement of the British and other governments to give up extraterritorial rights in China, including right in international settlements and in concessions and under the Boxer Protocol of 1901.
... 7. The Government of the United States and the Government of Japan will, respectively, remove the freezing restrictions on Japanese funds in the United States and on American funds in Japan. ... "
Its background is summarized in the following:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_note
What should be noted are the following parts:
"... In protest, the United States sent support to the Chinese Nationalist Government of Chiang Kai-shek, froze Japanese assets in the United States, and imposed an oil embargo on Japan. ...
On November 20, 1941, Nomura presented proposal B, which proposed that Japan stop further military action in return for 1 million gallons (3,800 m³) of aviation fuel from the United States. The United States was about to make a counter offer to this plan which included a monthly supply of fuel for civilian use. However, President Roosevelt received a leak of Japan's war plan and news that Japanese troop ships were on their way to Indochina. He decided the Japanese were not being sincere [citation needed] in their negotiations and instructed Secretary of State Cordell Hull to drop the counter-proposal.
On November 26, 1941 Secretary Hull presented the Japanese ambassador with the 'Hull note', which as one of its conditions demanded the complete withdrawal of all Japanese troops from China. It did not specifically exempt Manchuria, in which hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians were already living. Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo said to his cabinet, "this is an ultimatum."
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/ureeruhiroshi/57059906.html
As for Imperial Military advancement to Indochina, please refer to the following:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_French_Indochina
"The Japanese Invasion of French Indochina (Futsu-in shinchū?), also known as the Vietnam Expedition, was an attempt by the Empire of Japan, during the Second Sino-Japanese War to blockade China and prevent it from importing arms, fuel and 10,000 tons/month materials supplied by the United States through the Haiphong-Yunnan Fou railway line.[1]...
On September 22, Japan and Vichy Indochina signed an accord which granted basing and transit rights, but limited to 6000 the number of Japanese troops which could be stationed in Indochina, and set an overall cap of 25,000 on the total number of troops that could be in the colony at any given time..."And decisively, Roosevelt even rejected an offer by Japanese Prime Minister Konoe for holding a summit meeting to avoid the war months before the Pearl Harbor attack conducted in early December 1941. As Konoe's proposal was rejected by Roosevert, nobleman Konoe had to resign. Then, the Japanese Army took control of the Imperial Government.
Or from the beginning, the US was prepared for a possible war with the Empire of Japan after the Japanese-Russo War (1904-05) and the First World War.
War Plan Orange (commonly known as Plan Orange or just Orange) refers to a series of United States Joint Army and Navy Boardwar plans for dealing with a possible war with Japan during the years between the First and Second World Wars.
Informal studies as early as 1906 covered a number of possibilities, from basing at Gibraltar or Singapore[1] (an idea revived by the British before World War II)[2] to "a quick trans-Atlantic dash" to the Pacific.[3] The plan eventually adopted was conceived by Rear Admiral Raymond P. Rodgers in 1911.[4]
The plan was formally adopted by the Joint Army and Navy Board beginning in 1924.[5] Predating the Rainbow plans, which presumed the assistance of allies, Orange was predicated on the U.S. fighting Japan alone. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Orange
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(1) The U.S. citizens were not fully informed of determination of the U.S. Government to embark on a war against the Empire of Japan who was expected sooner or later to launch an attack on the U.S. bases in the Philippine on their route to oil fields in Indonesia before depletion of fuels in Imperial Navy due to the embargo on crude oil the U.S. had posed, so that the U.S. could send its troops to Europe to help the U.K. in the war with Germany having been in alliance with the Empire of Japan.
(2) The true reason for the shock to the U.S. Government on the attack at Pearl Harbor was not the fact that the Empire Japan started the war, but the discovery that the Empire of Japan with its aircraft carrier fleets and world-leading Zero fighter planes already had a military capability, at least technically, to destroy the whole U.S. Pacific fleets and thus their bases on the Pacific Ocean, though they had been neither truly built and deployed for the effective and concrete plan for a war against the U.S. nor supported by true mass-production industry and abundant resources.
(3) The Empire of Japan, before the receipt of the Hull Note, should have obtained information on Nazis' plan to kill 6 million Israelite Europeans. Accordingly it should have abolished the alliance with Germany, started withdrawal its troops from the Chinese mainland, and helped the United States defeat Nazis.
(4) Finally and amazingly, looking at peace, prosperity, and respect Japanese people have enjoyed in these 60 years after WWII, those killed during WWII seem not to have died for nothing at all.
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Indeed, history is always the Act of God.
Truly, people are always born only after the preceding history.
[Very importantly, it was after WWII that crude oil fields in Saudi Arabia were developed, since it was just during WWII that the U.S. started its research and exploration of oil deposits in the Persian Gulf region.]
(We are in a passenger seat of a taxi called History.
We have to clearly tell the driver our destination no matter how much the fare is: Peace.
Otherwise, the cab may just carry us to War, since the path to war is so wide and easy to drive on with full of prospect of spectacular profits for industrialists, financiers, merchants, politicians, and generals and officers as well as gangsters.
By the way, do you believe that an 83-year-old woman still works as a taxi driver somewhere on this earth like a wife of Abraham?)
"...He is the God of the living, not of the dead..."
(Und er ist doch ein Gott der Lebenden, nicht der Toten)