ms. hottabecause for a number of reasons. military bravado had something to do with it but there was a north, fear from the coming from the soviet union. the rewards of imperialism, because japan arrived too late. the powers had reaped benefits from imperialism in china and they were happy to keep it divided until they realized that, perhaps, this very westernized and very charming shanghai check might be the next leader of china so they decided to keep it unified. like.t japan didn't they were the ones that should be protecting chinese and, by extension, asian in trysts -- interests. they invoked a sense of moral doctrine. they felt that they had a special regional interest in that fear. >> craig nelson, how significant theit too when fdr moved naval base for the pacific to pearl harbor? did that threaten japan? mr. nelson: not really. fdr was convinced he could get them to calm down. america was very close to china at this time and we have a poll that americans were thinking chinese were natu

anyhow, the guy was a walking history book, and i want to ask ms. hottaother thing, and i'll let you go. i knew a japanese naval officer from the self-defense academy i met in the 1980s, and he told me they called it the great pacific war, and that's how they viewed history, what he was taught. and he also mentioned there's an article in the japanese constitution that prohibits them from having any kind of military operations overseas. i'd like y'all to comment on those two points. thank you, and i'll hang up. >> host: one of you write about then-captain outerbridge, was it? tell the story. >> guest: well, his story's pretty well known in its broad outlines. i don't think people really understand or know what an extraordinary set of circumstances led to william outerbridge being in the position he was in. he had been the captain of, the executive officer of another destroyer and truly hated his captain. just couldn't stand the man. and had been seeking to get a transfer off his destroyer in any way he could. and he was hoping for a land assignment so he c

anyhow, the guy was a walking history book, and i want to ask ms. hottaone other thing, and i'll let you go. i knew a japanese naval officer from the self-defense academy i met in the 1980s, and he told me they called it the great pacific war, and that's how they viewed history, what he was taught. and he also mentioned there's an article in the japanese constitution that prohibits them from having any kind of military operations overseas. i'd like y'all to comment on those two points. thank you, and i'll hang up. >> host: one of you write about then-captain outerbridge, was it? tell the story. >> guest: well, his story's pretty well known in its broad outlines. i don't think people really understand or know what an extraordinary set of circumstances led to william outerbridge being in the position he was in. he had been the captain of, the executive officer of another destroyer and truly hated his captain. just couldn't stand the man. and had been seeking to get a transfer off his destroyer in any way he could. and he was hoping for a land assignment so

has ms. hotta already answered my primary question about a half hour ago over the education system over -- what was being taught about the war, so i'm going to have to go to my backup question regarding the doolittle raids. after the doolittle took off and did, quite frankly, insignificant damage, but what was the political, what was the political thinking after the doolittle raids, and what was the repercussions up the chain of command as far as how they let those bombers attack tokyo? >> guest: well, in america it was considered a great victory because we had not had a world war ii victory yet on our team, on pretty much any of the allies. well, the battle of britain, but we hadn't had much happy news, so it was taken very well. in japan it was taken very hard because they had allowed the emperor to be imperilled x they immediately launched plans to take out the final american defense forces at midway. to you can say that in the scheme of things, the doolittle raid led directly to midway. and it