Craig Watson
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first heard May 2026
last heard 17 Aug
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And I should note, if you want to learn more about all of that fascinating history,
In greater detail, go over to the Pacific War Channel
And I actually have a few episodes, including a brand new episode that will be coming out in mid-July titled The Road to Pearl Harbor.
But there's also an episode I did that's a little bit interesting.
It's in both English and French, talking about the role France played in the Pacific War.
There's a strong emphasis on the battles in French Indochina, which almost nobody talks about.
So please, if any of that is interest to you, go over to the Pacific War channel on YouTube.
And please, if you do so, say where you came from.
Tell me, you know, you came from the Fallen Rise of China podcast.
But I desist.
Throughout the autumn of 1941, increasingly desperate negotiations took place between Japan and the United States.
Washington insisted that Japan withdraw from China.
Tokyo was equally firm that it would do no such thing.
From the Japanese point of view, the demand to leave China was not a serious negotiating position, but a demand for national humiliation, a call to repudiate four years of war.
vast casualties, and the ideological basis of Japanese militarism, in a single diplomatic act.
In the end, the gulf between the two positions could not be bridged.
While civilian and military leaders in Tokyo argued over the pace at which they should move towards war, very few amongst Japanese rulers doubted the war was coming.
At the Imperial Conference of November the fifth, it was formally agreed that if no satisfactory diplomatic solution had been reached by December the first, war would follow suit.
Talks in Washington between Ambassador Nomura Kichi Saburo, diplomat Kirusu Saburo, and Secretary of State Kordel Hall went nowhere.
On November the 26th, Hull delivered a note repeating the American position that Japan must withdraw from both China and Indochina.
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