Pearl Harbor: 50 years later (2010)

Undergraduate: Walter Fletcher

Faculty Advisor: Timothy Marr
Department: Psychology & Neuroscience

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Fiftieth anniversaries of violent events in America’s past are generally accompanied by reconciliation between the two opposing groups. However, the fiftieth anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor did not bring about such reconciliation. The inability to achieve such reconciliation is especially surprising because the two countries were and are presently allies. Attempts made on both the Japanese and American sides were derailed by complications stemming from unresolved diplomatic relation problems, the economic trade imbalance and the attitudes stemming from those conflicts