Prewar accounts blame 'mood of the time' for start of Pacifi

Recollections of former Imperial Japanese military personnel paint a picture of peer pressure and optimism fueled by Germany's victories across Europe as putting Japan on an unstoppable path toward the Pacific War. 

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