Japan’s Fourteen-part Message

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Japan’s Fourteen-part Message
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Abstract

Japan’s Fourteen-part Message to the United States, a memo sent on December 7, 1941, was the means by which the Japanese government broke off negotiations with the United States just as the attack on Pearl Harbor was taking place. The Fourteen-part Message is rare, if not unique, among historical documents in that it owes its significance to the fact that it was not promulgated or published—at least not in a timely fashion.

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