Eri Hotta, born in Tokyo and educated in Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom, has taught at Oxford, in Tokyo, and in Jerusalem, specializing in international relations. She is also the author of Pan-Asianism and Japan's War, 1931-1945.
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When Japan attacked the United States in 1941, argues Eri Hotta, its leaders, in large part, understood they were entering a conflict they were bound to lose. Availing herself of rarely consulted material, Hotta poses essential questions overlooked by his... SEE MORE