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Peter Mauch is Lecturer of History in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of Western Sydney.
Nomura Kichisaburo is an infamous figure, known primarily as the
Japanese ambassador to the U.S. who only notified U.S. officials of
Japan’s intent after his country’s ‘sneak attack’ on Pearl Harbor
in 1941. This new biography seeks to put Nomura’s ambassadorship in
the context of his long career in the Japanese navy. It examines
his growth as a navy officer along with his consistent belief that
Japan could not defeat the U.S. in an armed conflict, a view that
grew out of his naval experience. The author, a historian at the
University of Western Sydney, Australia, does not absolve Nomura of
responsibility for the diplomatic failures of his mission, but
instead seeks to show how his views about Japanese–American
relations both before and after WWII were remarkably prescient.
Moreover, Mauch shows that Nomura’s actions can only be understood
in the context of his naval career—hence the ‘sailor diplomat’
moniker. There is much here that will expand general and
professional readers’ understanding of Japan’s disastrous
diplomacy, and those same readers will learn much about the
organization and character of the prewar Japanese navy.
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