@inbook{10.3138/j.ctt2tv48q.16,
 ISBN = {9781442612341},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt2tv48q.16},
 abstract = {The memoirs of Tōgō Shigenori vividly reveal the immensity of the blow that struck the foreign minister upon reading the diplomatic cable that arrived from the Japanese ambassador in Washington, Admiral Nomura Kichisaburo. Attached to the telegram was a note from US Secretary of State Cordell Hull flatly rejecting the latest Japanese proposal –Otsuan, or Plan B² – to attempt to resolve the ongoing US-Japanese impasse. The message of the so-called Hull Note³ was unmistakable: Japan needed to initiate the first step and withdraw its troops from China⁴ before Washington would even begin to consider lifting its stifling embargo. It was,},
 booktitle = {Tumultuous Decade: Empire, Society, and Diplomacy in 1930s Japan},
 pages = {258--276},
 publisher = {University of Toronto Press},
 title = {“No choice but to rise”: Tōgō Shigenori and Japan’s Decision for War},
 year = {2013}
}