The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor

In this first episode, we'll be trying to understand why the japanese embarked on such a seemingly mad gamble as attacking the us. In order to understand the attack on pearl harbor, i think it's really important to understand what things look like from the inside of japan at this point. You just heard the historian christopher harding, senior lecturer in asian history at the university of edinburgh,. and the author of books include japan's story, in search of a nation and the Japans... A history in 20 lives. He is going to help us get to grips with what was going on in japan in the years running up to december 19 forty one