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BBC Two - The Road to War, Japan

Charles Wheeler examines the Japanese side.

Series looking at the events that led up to World War II. Charles Wheeler traces Japan's road to war, from 1907 to the Pearl Harbour attack in 1941.

The sixth in an eight-part series of documentaries giving a country-by-country account of the origins of WWII, written and narrated by Charles Wheeler. This episode traces Japan's road to war from drawing plans to destroy the US fleet in the Pacific (1907) to the Pearl Harbour attack (1941).

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