Japan's Road To The Pacific War Volume 4 - The Fateful Choice, Japan's Advance Into Southeast Asia 1939-1941

VERY GOOD FIRST EDITION hardcover, free tracking number, clean text, solid binding, NO remainders NOT ex-library, smoke free; slight gentle shelfwear / storage-wear; jacket lacking WE SHIP FAST. Carefully packed and quickly sent. 201809750 The Fateful Choice takes up the dilemma posed to Japan's expansionists in 1939-1941: how to exploit the opportunities suddenly open to them by Germany's assault on Europe -- whether to thrust northward against the Soviet Union and try to drive the Russians from the Pacific or thrust southward into the colonial empires of southeast Asia, driving out the Europeans and Americans and acquiring control of the vast resources there that made Japan's dream of autonomy seem possible. The first part of this volume presents a detailed account by one of Japan's leading international relations specialist, Hosoya Chihiro of Hitotsubashi University, of how Japan came to decide against the northern option, negotiating instead a treaty of neutrality with the USSR in 1941. The second part, composed of four essays by three other Japanese authorities, Nagaoka Shinjiro, chief editor of the Foreign Ministry's Diplomatic Documents, Hata Ikuhiko, an authority on Japanese military history, and Tsunoda Jun, a highly reputed diplomatic historian, probes the underlying rationale for the option taken, the "southern advance." Please choose Priority / Expedited shipping for faster delivery. (No shipping to Mexico, Brazil, Argentina or Italy.)