{"id":1290,"date":"2011-12-06T22:44:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T03:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:59:08","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:59:08","slug":"shafr-roundtable-on-pearl-harbor-plus-hnn-bonus-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2011\/12\/shafr-roundtable-on-pearl-harbor-plus-hnn-bonus-article\/","title":{"rendered":"SHAFR Roundtable on Pearl Harbor (Plus HNN Bonus Article)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In honor of the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on the US at Pearl Harbor, the Society for the History of American Foreign Relations has published a series of essays<\/a> on the event and historical memory issues; HNN has reprinted it (with a useful index post)<\/a>. John Gripentrog’s “The Road to War”<\/a> is a solid discussion of the political and ideological differences which put the US and Japan on a collision course. HNN’s supplemental piece, by Rupert Colley, tracks how the attack brought the US into the European conflict<\/a>. And Emily Rosenberg discusses how iconic attacks like Pearl Harbor and 9\/11<\/a> and their rhetorical and cultural resonances.<\/p>\n

Those are fine, but the articles I find most interesting are the other two. Greg Robinson writes about the effect of the Pearl Harbor attack on Japanese Americans<\/a> at that time and the way in which it becomes part of the rhetoric of race and bias in the decades to come.1<\/a><\/sup> Finally, Yujin Yaguchi describes an intercultural teachers’ seminar<\/a> which brought together Japanese and American teachers with time to explore their biases, perspectives, and to encounter new ones. The historiographical issues aren’t terribly new to academic historians, but for teachers working in a national curriculum context, it was quite enlightening. <\/p>\n

Update<\/b>: This article by Jonathan Parshall and J. Michael Wenger<\/a> is the first interesting new scholarship I’ve seen on Pearl Harbor in years. Mostly it’s about the development of the Japanese aircraft carrier group<\/i> as an operational unit, an unforseen shift in naval tactics.<\/p>\n

  1. The twitter chatter as the disaster this spring unfolded frequently, shockingly, referenced Pearl Harbor with a vicious karmic glee  ↩<\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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