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Did you read the reviews left by many different readers?

There might be quite a few holes in Mr. Lowman’s theory and I sure as hell have never seen or heard any evidence of what he claims.

One review of the book as follows “ I wonder why Lowman doesn’t mention in his book about his testimony under cross examination under oath in Federal Court in the early 80’s pertaining to Hirabishi & Korematsu Coram Nobus cases that MAGIC decrypts didn’t really provide any real evidence of Japanese Americans providing intelligence to the Japanese in Tokyo? “

Where is there any evidence of Japanese Americans on the mainland fully prepared to support Japanese attacks on America’s West Coast?

- and what kind of attacks are we talking about? Yes, they shelled areas of the West Coast from submarines but that’s about it. An actual landing was never going to happen.

In the early stages of the planning for Pearl Harbor a landing and occupation of Hawaii was brought up. But the idea was tossed right away as the realized it was not feasible.

Again - where is any of the evidence that the Japanese military had a sizable segment of Japanese Americans ready to do their dirty work?

Was anything of the sort discovered in Japanese military archives after the war? If so, I have never heard of such a discovery.

I read and own the book, which cites documents not available to the federal court in the early 80s--it sounds like the reviewer you quote didn't note that. The book is not theoretical, but cites intelligence available to U.S. agencies during the war, with extensive primary sources reproduced. The attacks of concern were mainly in the area of espionage and sabotage, not invasion (although the Japanese did later develop a plan to bomb key targets in the Americas, which fortunately didn't reach the deployment stage). To summarize the threat, U.S. intelligence estimated that "25 percent of all Japanese-Americans were of doubtful loyalty, and a much higher percent of the Issei. . .approximately 3,500 Japanese residents could be expected to act as agents and saboteurs. . .several thousand Japanese Americans educated in Japan (Kibei) were so dangerous to U.S. security that they should be placed in immediate custodial detention. . .there were Japanese-Americans located in the U.S. armed forces, factories, and airplane plants for subversive purposes. . .U.S. cryptanalysts had succeeded in breaking certain high-level Japanese codes and ciphers which revealed a steady stream of U.S. national defense information was being transmitted back to Tokyo."

Was anything of the sort discovered in Japanese military archives after the war? If so, I have never heard of such a discovery.

If you believe that the Japanese military did not thoroughly destroy all evidence of war crimes prior to their surrender, I have this nice bridge I'd like to sell you.

All indicators that Japan was doomed to defeat was plain for all to see many many months before Fat Man, Little Boy and the surrender.