The Hiroshima shadows.

[Amarok]

It was a cultural failure.  We did not understand them.  They did not understand us.  John Toland's "The Rising Sun" gives an amazing overview of the multiple fuckups that led to WWII in the Pacific.

Good book

I like how he gets the Japanese fear of western expansionism . Which is the reason Japan turned to Fascism and Militarism in the first place . As they ultimately feared suffering the same fate as China .