The surveillance and detention of Italian Americans after Pearl Harbor is a little-known piece of WWII history.

Shared enmity toward Franklin D. Roosevelt’s United States of America is what brought Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan together again in the early fall of 1940 to certify a new agreement.
 

Yoshikuni Igarashi examines the impact of World War II and Japan’s defeat on postwar Japanese memory.

As USS Arizona burned on December 7, 1941, Lt. Commander Fuqua displayed true courage under fire.

Takeshi Maeda, a Japanese Imperial Naval pilot, guided his bomber to Pearl Harbor and released a torpedo that helped sink the USS West Virginia. Years later, he became a leading figure in reconciliation efforts between Japan and the United States.

The signing of the Anti-Comintern Pact between Germany and Japan in 1936 was one of the truly momentous and horrifying conjunctures of the twentieth century.

In remembering Pearl Harbor, we remember who we are.

Hawaii’s initial importance to the US Army was not due to long-term planning, but it would become a crucial piece of a defensive network in the Pacific.

How Japan was imagined in Germany and in Hitler’s racial worldview needs to be defined precisely.

“The location of the (US) Fleet in Hawaiian waters would act as a deterrent to the Japanese only so long as its positioning did not appear to the Japanese as solely a bluff.” – Admiral J.O. Richardson

The final installment of the story of the Hesse Heist covers the trials of Nash, Durant, and Watson.

The attack on Pearl Harbor was decades in the making, but still came as a shock.