Message from rhitlin

[Anonymous]

I really was enlightened by the lecture this evening. For me, this lecture provided me a road map from the Japanese perspective for their eventual decision to attack Pearl Harbor and their military actions during World War II. A statement during the lecture that resonated with me was that in the Pacific War/Second World War, civilians became "fair-game" in terms of killing on a large scale by both sides. The nuclear bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki provide ample evidence for this statement.