Japanese War Fantasy 1933

A new annotated edition of a shocking Japanese paperback, published in 1933, which foreshadowed a surprise attack on the US Pacific Fleet.Learn why the original Japanese version was confiscated and banned in the US. The government went as far as to collect books that had already been sold.The original novel was endorsed by two admirals in the Imperial Japanese Navy, both of whom provided forewords for the book. Although explicitly a work of fiction, the book was implicitly a statement of  real IJN strategy.