Editing Attack on Pearl Harbor (section)

=== Coverage in Japan ===
News of the attack was first broadcast at 11:30 AM ([[Japan Standard Time|Japanese Standard Time]]), however it had already been announced "shortly after" 7 AM (Japanese Standard Time) that Japan had "entered into a situation of war with the United States and Britain in the Western Pacific before dawn". There was no further elaboration or explanation, and the attacks were already finished by that time.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Hotta |first=Eri |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pOS_5EfYtEEC |title=Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |year=2013 |chapter=Prologue: What A Difference a Day Makes |isbn=978-0-385-35051-8 |access-date=February 22, 2024 |via=Google Books}}</ref> The attack on Pearl Harbor was eventually covered in the Japanese press, but press in wartime Japan was heavily censored.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Kunii |first=Maiko |url=https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7744&context=etd_theses |title=Asahi Shimbun and The New York Times: Framing Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 Attacks |publisher=San Jose State University |year=2012 |access-date=February 16, 2024}}</ref> One Japanese newspaper, [[The Asahi Shimbun|The ''Asahi Shimbun'']] did report on the attack the day it occurred, and from that point onward their editorials began to back governmental decisions regardless of what they were.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Yoshimoto |first=Hideko |url=https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1813&context=etd_theses |title=Media treatment of World War II in Japan and the United States, 1931-1945: a propaganda theory approach (unpublished) |publisher=San Jose State University |year=1994 |pages=81–83 |access-date=February 16, 2024}}</ref> The ''Asahi Shimbun'' also reported the declaration of war on the United States after the attacks, framing it as an Imperial Order, with most Japanese people taking it that way. In contrast, coverage in the ''New York Times'' focused on "the danger to democracy and to the nation" brought on by the Japanese attack.<ref name=":0" /> [[NHK]] broadcast twelve special news reports along with its six regularly scheduled ones that day.<ref name=":1" /> NHK covered the news of Pearl Harbor and other attacks positively throughout the rest of the month.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Robbins |first=Jane M. J. |url=https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14444/1/268276.pdf |title=Tokyo Calling: Japanese Overseas Radio Broadcasting 1937-1945 |year=1997 |pages=82 |type=Doctoral thesis|publisher=University of Sheffield}}</ref>