This documented account of the Japanese journey to the Pacific War culminates in a fifth and final volume. The authors of these essays were given access to a wide range of primary materials, including not only those of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, but also a mass of previously unavailable documents from the former Imperial Army and Navy, the Justice Ministry, and the Foreign Ministry. Also consulted were the private papers of Prime Ministers Konoe Fumimaro and Okada Keisuke, General Ugaki Kazushige, and Colonel Ishiwara Kanji.
