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On 14 August 1945, the Emperor of Japan informed his good and loyal subjects that he had decided the surrender of his country to the Allied forces, the USA, the UK, China, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the USSR. He stated that Japan had declared war on America and Britain out of ‘Our sincere desire to assure Japan’s self-preservation and the stabilization of East Asia, it being far from Our thought either to infringe upon the sovereignty of other nations or to embark upon territorial aggrandizement’ (the full text of the statement is in Presentation 3.1).
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Rhoads Murphey, A History of Asia (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), pp. 352, 354, 356.
B. V. A. Röling and Antonio Cassese, The Tokyo Trial and Beyond (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1993) p. 40: by permission of Blackwell Publishers (23 June 1997).
Haruko Taya Cook and Theodore F. Cook, Japan at War, An Oral History (New York: The New Press, 1992), pp. 382–3, used by permission.
Saburo Ienaga, The Pacific War, 1931–1945, A Critical Perspective on Japan’s Role in World War II (New York: Random House, 1978), p. 201.
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Beigbeder, Y. (1999). The Tokyo Trial. In: Judging War Criminals. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230378964_3
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