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  • Memoir by Prince Konoe

  • The Secret Negotiations Between Japan and the U.S. Before Pearl Harbor
  • By: Jenny Chan, Barbara Halperin
  • Narrated by: David Pickering
  • Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Memoir by Prince Konoe

By: Jenny Chan, Barbara Halperin
Narrated by: David Pickering
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On December 16, 1945, Prince Konoe committed suicide after refusing to collaborate with US Army officer Bonner Fellers in Operation Blacklist. His refusal to exonerate Emperor Hirohito and the imperial family of war crimes responsibilities.

A week before he took the cyanide, he wrote a memoir regarding his experience governing Imperial Japan during World War 2.

Although Prince Fumimaro Konoe was born into one of the most ancient and noble families of Japan and was a descendant of the Gosekke (fiver regent families), he faced poverty at 14 after his father passed away. He was then groomed by his uncle Prince Saionji Kinmochi, who was a prime minister at the time, for an essential role in government.

By 1937, Prince Konoe became the prime minister of Imperial Japan, during a time when Japan had occupied Manchuria. At the age of 46, Prince Konoe was the second youngest prime minister in Japan's history. During his first year of being a prime minister, the China Incident happened, and the Sino-Japanese War raged on.

The memoir shows many efforts of Prince Konoe's efforts for negotiations with Chinese and US government officials to try to end the war early as well as his governing during a time of crisis during the Pacific Asia War.

This audiobook includes:

  • An introduction of the Imperial Japanese government
  • A family tree of the Japanese royal families
  • A biographical report of Prince Fumimaro Konoe by the Interim Research and Intelligence Service of the Research and Analysis Branch of the Department of State
  • His translated memoir
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Excellent Book with Great Insight!

This is an excellent book with eye-opening insight on the negotiations that occurred before Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. It is well written and the audiobook narration is high quality too. The book does an excellent job of explaining the Japanese perspective of dialogue and discussions with the United States as well as all of the internal political turmoil they were dealing with in addition to their international issues with China, Russia, and the European war. Jenny Chan's other books are excellent too and I'm now a fan!

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