The rise and fall of Japan
- Published: 15/02/2012 at 02:56 AM
- Newspaper section: Life
Discovery Channel recounts the events of the most significant global conflict in the history of mankind and its equally dramatic aftermath, while revealing new and challenging insights into a battle that shaped the Asia-Pacific region in Sei Sen.
Japan's "holy war" was begun by those within Japan who dreamed that their nation could lead the whole of Asia out from the shadow of European and American dominance. The dramatic attack by Japan's Imperial Navy on the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor was a stunning victory for Japan, but it also marked the moment that meant its plans for glorious conquest could never succeed.
Japan's quest to build a vast empire was a hugely ambitious and courageous feat, but one that also brought immense suffering to the people it conquered _ and, ultimately, death and destruction to its own people.
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