TY - BOOK ID - 142269114 TI - From Mahan to Pearl Harbor : the imperial Japanese navy and the United States AU - Asada, Sadao. AU - Mahan, A. T. PY - 2013 SN - 161251295X PB - Annopolis : Naval Institute Press, DB - UniCat KW - Japan -- Foreign relations -- 20th century. KW - Japan -- History, Naval -- 1868-1945. KW - Japan. Kaigun -- History -- 20th century. KW - Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer), 1840-1914. KW - World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan. KW - Mahan, A. T. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:142269114 AB - major work by one of Japan's leading naval historians, this book traces Alfred Thayer Mahan's influence on Japan's rise as a sea power after the publication of his classic study, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History. Hailed by the British Admiralty, Theodore Roosevelt, and Kaiser Wilhelm II, the international bestseller also was endorsed by the Japanese Naval Ministry, who took it as a clarion call to enhance their own sea power. That power, of course, was eventually used against the United States. Sadao Asada opens his book with a discussion of Mahan's sea power doctrine and demonstra ER -