Japanese War Fantasy 1933: An Edited and Annotated Translation of Account of the Future Us-Japan War Fukunaga Kyosuke
A bombshell dropped onto Honolulu docks in 1933--by ominous coincidence, on December 7. It was merely a crate of Japanese pulp fiction titled Account of the Future US-Japan War. Unlike other popular…
Specifikacia Japanese War Fantasy 1933: An Edited and Annotated Translation of Account of the Future Us-Japan War Fukunaga Kyosuke
A bombshell dropped onto Honolulu docks in 1933--by ominous coincidence, on December 7. It was merely a crate of Japanese pulp fiction titled Account of the Future US-Japan War. Unlike other popular war fiction of the day, this riveting techno-thriller was written by a Japanese naval commander with forewords by two prominent admirals of the imperial navy. The book gave readers a foretaste of the strategy, tactics, and weaponry of the next world war. Author Kyosuke Fukunaga's dramatic tale foretold the roles of naval air power, submarines, radio communications, intelligence, civil affairs, propaganda, and racial unrest. The book details Japanese attacks on Guam, the Philippines, and Hawaii. But Fukunaga's most eye-opening revelations reveal Japanese strategists' faulty expectations of an enemy that supposedly lacked the will to fight. US Customs quietly confiscated Fukunaga's