There was Prince Tokugawa Iesato in the late-1930s to early-1940s who warned the US of radical ultra-militarism and fascism, sadly he died in 1940 due to cancer, a year before the 1941 attack. Also, after his death the ultra-militarists took over the government and gained total power at that point. I think he and several other Japanese nobles who were pro-moderates tried to maintain the Anglo-Japanese Alliance to foster greater relationships with the Western Powers to championed a form of moderate representative democracy.
In addition, Prince Fumimaro Konoe (who was wrongfully tried by the [American] Allies after the surrender of Imperial Japan for his failure to exonerate the Emperor for supposed war crimes) and some other Japanese nobles tried to stop the ultra-militarists from taking over Imperial Japan, but to no avail.
Thus, this war costed the Japanese Empire their Imperial government, downsizing of their Imperial family, abolition of their peerage nobility/hereditary aristocracy, and loss of territories.
dukedanchen8 t1_iy2fym1 wrote
Reply to On April 2, 1941, a Japanese foreign minister asked Pope Pius XII to speak to U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, so as to avert "a war of mutual destruction” by marketrent
There was Prince Tokugawa Iesato in the late-1930s to early-1940s who warned the US of radical ultra-militarism and fascism, sadly he died in 1940 due to cancer, a year before the 1941 attack. Also, after his death the ultra-militarists took over the government and gained total power at that point. I think he and several other Japanese nobles who were pro-moderates tried to maintain the Anglo-Japanese Alliance to foster greater relationships with the Western Powers to championed a form of moderate representative democracy.
In addition, Prince Fumimaro Konoe (who was wrongfully tried by the [American] Allies after the surrender of Imperial Japan for his failure to exonerate the Emperor for supposed war crimes) and some other Japanese nobles tried to stop the ultra-militarists from taking over Imperial Japan, but to no avail.
Thus, this war costed the Japanese Empire their Imperial government, downsizing of their Imperial family, abolition of their peerage nobility/hereditary aristocracy, and loss of territories.