Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, war between the Empire of Japan and the United States was a possibility each nation's military forces had planned for after World War I. The expansion of American te
Captured Japanese photograph taken aboard a Japanese carrier before the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 (U.S. National Archives, 80-G-30549, 520599)
Emperor Hirohito, reigned from 1926 to 1989
Prime Minister of Japan (1937–1939, 1940–1941) Konoe Fumimaro
Prime Minister of Japan (1941–1944) Hideki Tojo
Racial Equality Proposal
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The Racial Equality Proposal was an amendment to the Treaty of Versailles that was considered at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.
Prelude to the attack on Pearl Harbor
…to become a colonial power in order to be modern and therefore Western. In addition, resentment was fanned in Japan by the rejection of the Japanese Racial Equality Proposal in the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, as well as by a series of racist laws, which enforced segregation and barred Asian people (including Japanese) from…
Baron Makino Nobuaki
Lord Cecil