[Born Conservative]

"It was a war of self-defence," she says. "Japan was being held back by the ABCD line of America, Britain, China and the Dutch, who had together imposed an economic embargo, so there was no choice.

Japan had been building up it's military for several decades prior to Pearl Harbor. I don't think it was a war of self-defense.

[HereInTheHeartland]

"Japan was being held back by the ABCD line of America, Britain, China and the Dutch, who had together imposed an economic embargo, so there was no choice."

This sounds like the revisionist textbooks that whitewash what the Japanese animals did in Nanking.