Information of this book “Day of Deceit” reached me just on Dec.14, 2000 from my friend. Checking the Internet, the following astonishing information was obtained.

There are two points in this book, 1) ”the attack on Pearl Harbor was deliberately　instigated by the Roosevelt Administration” and 2) “ North Pacific area, where an attack was believed　likely to originate, was declared a ``vacant sea'' just weeks prior to the　attack and any patrols were forbidden in this area”.
In Japan, it is said that Japan was forced to fight US unavoidably, and US may have a prior knowledge of Pearl Harbor attack because two major aircraft carriers are not in the harbor.
This book gives some answers to the above suspicion.
As checking further the policy of US in the year after the start of World War II in Europe and year 1941, the thought of intrigue of President Roosevelt(FDR) to incite Japanese government into Pacific War becomes more convincing for me.
Specially, it will be reasonable to assume that FRD deliberately solicitudes Japanese Navy’s task forces (32 fleets, including eight carries) into Pearl Harbor on the early morning of Dec. 7, 1941.

One convincing evidence is that two modern carriers of US Navy left Pearl Harbor a week before of attack, to foreseen suprise atack (indicated in the Independent Institute Forum)

http://www.independent.org/tii/forums/000524ipfTrans.html
Independent Policy Forum
Audience Member #26
American aircraft carriers were not in port. Was that accidental, or do you feel that was deliberate? Somebody had thought that out and knew that the aircraft carriers were what it would take to win the war and deliberately had them removed from Pearl Harbor.

Robert B. Stinnett: Thank you. I did not speak of that. There was three aircraft carriers in the Pacific in December 1941. One was in San Diego and two were in the Pearl Harbor, but about a week before the Pearl Harbor attack, Washington DC ordered the two carriers, that was the USS Enterprise and the USS Lexington and their task groups, to deliver 12 Army Pursuit planes to Wake and 12 to Midway. So these task forces, and their cruisers and attendant vessels, these were the most modern ships of our Navy, left Pearl Harbor, so what was left there were the old World War I battleships that could only go 18 knots. They could not keep up with carriers who go 30 knots.
So what you had left in Pearl Harbor for the attack, were just these relics of World War I. Our modern ships were out ostensibly to deliver these planes to Wake and Midway. Admiral Halsey was in charge of the Enterprise, and he did deliver 12 planes to Wake, but the other vessel, the Lexington, did not deliver. It just sort of sailed around in the central Pacific there, and never did deliver the planes to Midway.
So I think that was a ruse just to get the most modern ships out and just leave the old, beat-up battleships for Japan's attack. And you know, Japan did not attack our oil supply on Oahu, didn't attack the electric grid on Oahu. That would have been terrible damage to us. They just went after these old wrecks, relics of World War I. You sir?

Audience Member #27: That Action F there, keeping the fleet at Pearl Harbor. Do you believe the idea there was to provide a tempting target, or was this suppose to be a threat? The other actions there seemed to be threats - do something that makes the Japanese afraid of us, whereas what actually happened was it provided a tempting target. Now, do you think that's what they were trying to do, a tempting target, or just one more threat?

Robert B. Stinnett; No, I think that was what Commander McCullum had in mind, as the tempting target to the Japanese militarists who were enraged by being cut off from their oil. They had no place to go, and so keeping the fleet there at Pearl Harbor was a provocation that easily fell into the Japanese militarists' hands, and normally the fleet was based on the West Coast. There was no such thing as the Pacific Fleet in 1940 when this - it's called the Hawaiian detachment, as I recall. It was just a small number of warships there.

So President Roosevelt ordered Admiral Richardson to keep the fleet there over the admiral's objection. As I said, the admiral refused to do it. It was a knock-down, drag out name-calling there in the Oval Office on October 8th, and President Roosevelt fired Admiral Richardson and put in Admiral Kimmel. Somebody down in the middle there. Right there, you sir?

http://www.independent.org/tii/forums/000524ipfTrans.html
Independent Policy Forum
Pearl Harbor:　Official Lies in an American War Tragedy?　May 24, 2000
The Independent Institute Conference Center　Robert B. Stinnett
Former Journalist, Oakland Tribune and BBC
Author, Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor

http://www.pacshiprev.com/page34.html
The Pearl Harbor Gaqzette;

http://www.pacshiprev.com/page52.html
The Smoking Guns of Pearl Harbor by H.A.Holbrook,2000年3月2日 (The Pearl Harbor Gazette)

http://www.pacshiprev.com/page37.html
Admiral Husband Kimmel & General Walter Short, Pearl　Harbor Scapegoats, June 18, 2000.　Congress endorses promotion of admiral Husband Kimmel and　General Walter Short to Highest Wartime Ranks　

http://www.pacshiprev.com/page43.html
Dorn Report of Dec.1996 "Advancement of Rear Admiral　Kimmel and Major General Short on the Retired List"　by Edward R. Kimmel (January 2,1998)キンメルの家族の訴え

http://www.pacshiprev.com/page51.html
Under Secretary of Defense,
subject; Advancement of Rear Admiral Kimmel and Major　General Short (Dorn Report,1995)

"Many of us who are veterans of World War II's Pacific Theater of Operations have always suspected that the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was deliberately provoked. A half century later, Robert Stinnett has come up with most of the smoking guns. Day of Deceit shows that the famous 'surprise' attack was no surprise to our war-minded rulers, and that the three thousand American military men killed and wounded on Sunday morning in Hawaii were, to our rulers and their present avatars, a small price to pay for that 'global empire' over which we now so ineptly preside."
--Gore Vidal

"Step by step, Stinnett goes through the prelude to war, using new documents to reveal the terrible secrets that have never before been disclosed to the public. It is disturbing that eleven presidents, including those I admired, kept the truth from the public until Stinnett's Freedom of Information Act requests finally persuaded the Navy to release the evidence."
--John Toland, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Infamy

"After what went on in Europe, no one can say our wartime President was wrong to go to war against the Axis, but we have the right to discover how he did it, and a historical obligation to clear the names of persons wrongly blamed. Robert Stinnett, using the Freedom of Information Act, has spent sixteen years delving into our national archives on this subject. There was obvious concealment, but not everything could be covered up and the result is eye-opening."

-Edward L. Beach, author of Scapegoats: A Defense of Kimmel and Short at Pearl Harbor and Run Silent, Run Deep

"Pearl Harbor. Anyone interested in the subject must read Day of Deceit. It contains new and frightening documentation about what caused America's greatest military disaster. It is one of the most important books about Pearl Harbor in recent memory; it will also create a firestorm of debate about our nation's military and civilian leadership as America was swept into World War II."
-Bruce Lee, coauthor of Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement and author of Marching Orders:

＜From Kirkus Reviews＞
his discovery that the North Pacific area, where an attack was believed　likely to originate, was declared a ``vacant sea'' just weeks prior to the　attack and any patrols were forbidden in this area. The real heart of the　book is the argument that the attack on Pearl Harbor was deliberately　instigated by the Roosevelt Administration as a way of quickly bringing a　unified America into the war. Stinnett begins his case by quoting a policy　memo written by Lt. Cdr. Arthur McCullum listing eight actions designed to　incite a military action by Japan, including such actions as the blocking of　the sale of oil to the Japanese, maintaining a heavy US naval presence in　the Pacific, and supporting Chiang Kai-shek in China. After showing how this　plan was carried out, he then goes on to show how this effort systematically　led up to Pearl Harbor.

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It was not long after the first Japanese bombs fell on the American naval ships at Pearl Harbor that conspiracy theories began to circulate, charging that Franklin Roosevelt and his chief military advisors knew of the impending attack well in advance. Robert Stinnett, who served in the U.S.
Navy with distinction during World War II, examines recently declassified American documents and concludes that, far more than merely knowing of the Japanese plan to bomb Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt deliberately steered Japan into war with America. Stinnett's argument draws on both circumstantial evidence--the fact, for example, that in September 1940 Roosevelt signed into law a measure providing for a two-ocean navy that would number 100 aircraft carriers--and, more importantly, on American governmental documents that offer apparently incontrovertible proof that Roosevelt knowingly sacrificed American lives in order to enter the war on the side of England. Although obviously troubled by his discovery of a systematic plan of deception on the part of the American government, Stinnett does not take deep issue with its outcome. Roosevelt, he writes, faced powerful opposition from isolationist forces, and, against them, the Pearl Harbor attack was "something that had to be endured in order to stop a greater evil--the Nazi invaders in Europe who had begun the Holocaust and were poised to invade England." Sure to excite discussion, Stinnett's book offers what may be the final word on the terrible matter of Pearl Harbor. --Gregory McNamee

About Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor
"A fascinating and readable book that is exceptionally well-presented."
-- Wall Street Journal
"It is difficult, after reading this copiously documented book, not to wonder about previously unchallenged assumptions about Pearl Harbor."
-- New York Times
"Stinnett goes through the prelude to war, using new documents to reveal the terrible secrets that have never before been disclosed. It is disturbing that eleven presidents kept the truth from the public."
-- John Toland, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Infamy
"Day of Deceit shows that the attack on Pearl Harbor was no 'surprise' to our war-minded rulers, and that the three thousand American military men killed and wounded were a 'small price' to pay for that 'global empire' over which we now so ineptly preside."
-- Gore Vidal, author, Lincoln, Empire, and American Presidency "Robert Stinnett, using the Freedom of Information Act, has spent sixteen years delving into our national archives. There was obvious concealment, but not everything could be covered up, and the result is eye-opening."
-- Edward L. Beach, author, Run Silent, Run Deep