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OCEANIA RIVIERA DEPARTS YOKOHAMA

 Lunch on Day 11. The Diamond Princess docked across the pier from us. The speaker today was  Adam Tanner , author in residence at Harvard.   He spoke on:  Japanese View of the Pearl Harbor Attack--How Tokyo justified its World War Two aggression. I already provided some background information about this subject in my  24April2025  posting. Having been born in 1940 in Honolulu, I was a little more than one year old when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.  I thus was a U.S. citizen, and being of Japanese descent, lived through my life with a sense of discomfort about what people felt about my loyalties.  Of course, I was American, and schools taught me about that Day of Infamy, and how terrible the Japanese were about starting World War II in the Pacific. Now in my 80's, for the first time I'm beginning to realize that just maybe, Japan was cornered in desperation, and had to become aggressive to survive as a nation. Not shown in the  graphic to ...