little hawk, (is shooting someone in the back cowardly or well planned military strategy) cowardly or not the fact remains is that Japanese are not taught any of that in school (ie. that Japan started the war, Im fully aware of history and that the American govt knew it was coming) I walked through a Japanese military museum which extolled all the virtues of the one man torpedo, kamikaze fighters and all the men who died keeping china Japanese. I also walked through the Hiroshima museum, which (tragic though the bombing was) talked only about this crime against humanity and how it must never happen again. ANd yet nowhere do they mention of the thousands of civilians killed in China and the south pacific. practising biowarfare and medical experiments on pows (doctors amputating perfectly good arms and legs for practice) Its as if it never happened (as many people died in Nanking as in Hiroshima and yet no one talks about it). whatever you may think about Pearl Harbour it was a surprise attack on a country at peace time.