Diplomatic documents declassified

TOKYO, Japan - A file photo shows former U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt. Japanese diplomatic documents declassified on March 7, 2013, show prosecutors at the Tokyo war crime trials following Japan's surrender in 1945 closely looked into the delay in delivering Roosevelt's letter to the Japanese emperor on the eve of war, apparently to establish that the Japanese foreign minister was responsible for failing to stop Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.

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