At the time, many Americans sincerely believed that Japan was unjustly marked as an aggressor, a nation with friendly intentions to make peace and to help with the progress of Asian neighbors.
Newman obtained permission from the General Director of New York Herald Tribune, George Cornish, to use material he had gathered while working in Japan before 1941.
The third chapter talks of the indoctrination of Asian leaders using material from visits Newman made, accompanied by other journalists and with some restrictions, to Chinese occupied lands and Manchukuo.
The next two chapters cover the Japanese control of mass media, strict press censorship and the difficulty faced by foreign correspondents and journalists.
The final chapters refer to the latest political-military local actions, diplomatic movements, the hostility between Japan and United States, the proposal of a Japanese invasion plan against the Soviet Union in Eastern Siberia taking advantage of the German attack on European Russia, the last working days of foreign journalists (including Newman himself) and the evacuation of the last Americans and other foreign residents, just a short time before the Pearl Harbor Attack, and the return to San Francisco via Hawaii.