Starting at 6:30 pm on Sunday, 19 September 2010, Takeo Iguchi will reprise his recent book,  Demystifying Pearl Harbor: A New Perspective from Japan (I-House Press, 2010). 
Demystifying Pearl Harbor broadly treats how and why Japan and the United States went to war in 1941. The book focuses on a painstaking analysis of the circumstances surrounding Japan's delayed post-Pearl-Harbor "ultimatum" to the United States, which has been controversial for almost 70 years. Demystifying Pearl Harbor may not be the last word on the subject, but it goes further than any previous book in setting the record straight on Japan's Pearl Harbor attack.
Takeo Iguchi brought to bear a unique set of qualifications when he wrote Demystifying Pearl Harbor. On 7 December 1941, he was in Washington, DC, where his father was counselor to the Japanese Embassy. As a Japanese diplomat, he later became intimately familiar with the bureaucratic workings of Japan's Foreign Ministry and its embassies. After retiring from government service, he wrote on and taught international law at several universities in the United States and Japan. Personal interviews with Japanese civilian and military personnel who had been involved in the Japan's Pearl Harbor drama supplemented his extensive archival research for Demystifying Pearl Harbor. 
To attend Takeo Iguchi's's BookNotes presentation, you must buy a copy of Demystifying Pearl Harbor from Good Day Books.

Upcoming BookNotes speakers include Jeff Kingston, the author most recently of Contemporary Japan: History, Politics, and Social Change since the 1980s (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).