Japan's was of self defense by Mike S. King

Japan’s War of Self-Defense: The True Story of World War II in Asia by Mike S. King presents a sharply revisionist interpretation of Japan’s road to World War II and the conflict in the Pacific. Beginning with Western intervention in Asia during the nineteenth century and continuing through Japan’s modernization, its conflicts with China and Russia, Pearl Harbor, the Pacific War, and the postwar occupation, King argues that Japan was systematically pressured and maneuvered into a war it ultimately fought for national survival.