The Setting Sun of Japan, first published in 1942, is an insightful look at the Far East in 1941, in the months just before the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7. The authors, a pair of journalists, traveled to Japan, Shanghai and Nanking in China, Manila, Saigon, Malaya, Java, Singapore, Sydney, Brisbane, Auckland, Fiji, and Honolulu, before returning to America - one of the last civilian transports to reach the west coast before the war began. The authors describe conditions in each country visited, and provide a sense of the impending crisis about to strike

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