Can We Understand The Japanese?
NE error into which we appear to have fallen was in accepting, at face value, the division of the Japanese leaders into militarists or extremists, and "moderates." The moderate groups, Mr. Gayn says, have not been opposed to aggression, but because of their desire as business men for markets overseas, or their fear as politicians that they would lose their eminence in a totalitarian state, they have eschewed extremist and incautious action. He adds: There are few Japanese who do not wish to see Nippon’s flag planted in China, Indo-China or the Dutch East Indies. The moderates, therefore, are merely those who, for reasons of self-interest, desired to see this aggressive penetration of other countries’ preserves conducted carefully, so as not to provoke any major conflict. So our understanding here, as in other calculations relating to the mentality and the mood of the Japanese, was probably rather less than exact, until bombs fell in Oahu, Hawaii.("The Fight for the Pacific," by Martin J. Gayn, reviewed by John Moffett, 4YA, December 10).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 133, 9 January 1942, Page 2
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