Japanese War Fantasy 1933: An Edited and Annotated Translation of Account of the Future Us-Japan War Fukunaga Kyosuke
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…
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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. 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. It was merely a crate of Japanese pulp fiction titled Account of the Future US-Japan 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 gave readers a foretaste of the strategy, tactics, and weaponry of the next world war. 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