“Now the Enemy Is America and Britain!”

While the language here is inflammatory, it is also vague. In retrospect, this article all but declares war on the West some eleven months before Peart Harbor, but a number of commentators, Japanese, American, British, and others, had been predicting war in the Pacific since the days of the Russo-Japanese War. The Japanese home front reader would have had great difficulty in discerning the military's course of action from this article.