Japan and America continue to negotiate (or, at least, make an attempt to do this) in the late summer and fall of 1941. By November, a serious chance of war was looming.

Citations -

Eri Hotta, Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013)

John Toland, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945 (New York: The Modern Library, 1970)

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Music -

Artist: Cody Martin

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