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📓 REPORT FROM TOKYO A Message to the American People By JOSEPH C. GREW United States Ambassador to Japan, 7932 to 19 ifc f 42 Simon and Schuster NEW YORK Contents PREFACE vii INTRODUCTORY NOTE xi PRESIDENT ROOSEVELTS MESSAGE TO CONGRESS xxv 1. RETURN FROM JAPAN 3 2. WHY WAR CAME 11 5. THE EXTENT OF THE JAPANESE CHALLENGE 19 4. HOW WE MUST FIGHT TO DEFEAT JAPAN 6 5. WHY WE CAN NO LONGER DO BUSINESS WITH JAPAN 37 6. JAPANESE YOUTH 50 7. TRUTH IN JAPAN 55 8. IS THIS A RACIAL WAR 60 9. OUR ALLIES IN THE PACIFIC 67 10. JAPAN THE PLEDGE AND THE PERFORMANCE 73 11. BUILDING THE FUTURE-A POSTSCRIPT 86 Preface The purpose of this book is to overcome a fallacy in the thinking of a large proportion of my fellow countrymen about our war with Japan. That thinking, so far as I have been able to gauge it since my return from Tokyo on August 25, 1942, is clearly influenced by preconceived but un founded assumptions as to Japans comparative weakness and vulnera bility in war. Such thinking is not only erroneous it constitutes a grave danger to our fighting spirit, our war effort, and our united will to win. If persisted in, it will be a serious obstacle to our ultimate victory. During my mission to Japan I kept our Government informed, espe cially throughout the year 1941 , of the ever-present danger of an all-out, do-or-die attempt by the Japanese military machine to render their coun try, through vast territorial expansion, secure against economic pressures from abroad. I reported that Japan m...