Louie, I agree that Truman was an outstanding president, especially when compared to that lying, draft dodging vacuous dummy we have now. However, Japan did not start the war. We did, as usual.
We ordered them out of China, we ordered them out of Indo China, we ordered them out of the islands of the South Pacific, we stopped all shipments to Japan,and the last straw was when FDR froze their assets in this country. They lost face, and they knew they could not beat us but they would rather die than lose face. Something we have never understood.
Our own people were largely responsible for the so called "Sneak attack". Yamamoto did not know that the declaration of war had not been delivered, and in his mind he was not making a sneak attack.

They say that history is written by the winners, but, sometimes the truth survives the pen of the revisionists.