DENOUNCES JAPAN

[Photo caption]: IN WASHINGTON. Clarke H. Kawakami read war news to his wife last night after denouncing Japan's attack on the United States as "the blackest and most shameful page in Japanese history." Kawakami, American-born Japanese and U.S. citizen, served as Washington correspondent for a Japanese news agency. -- A.P. wirephoto.

WASHINGTON, Monday, Dec. 15. -- (AP) -- Clarke H. Kawakami, for seven years a correspondent for Domei, the official Japanese news agency, yesterday denounced Japan's treacherous attack on the United States as "the blackest and most shameful page in Japanese history."

Kawakami, an American citizen born in the United States and educated at Harvard University, resigned as Domei's correspondent when he received news of the Japanese attack on Hawaii.

Today he informed newspaper colleagues in a letter that he planned to enlist in the American Army to do his bit toward "crushing forever" the type of "militarist rule which drugs and drags peaceful people into war, wherever it exists." His letter was made public by the State Department.

"It seems clear," Kawakami wrote, "that throughout the last two months, since (General) Tojo became premier, Japan's mind was already made up for war, and that she kept up the pretense of negotiating with this country only in order to gain time for the completion of her war preparations.

"That shameful double-dealing coupled with the equally shameful manner in which she launched her attacks on Sunday, without warning indicates how completely the militarists in Tokyo have gone over to the methods of Hitler and the Nazis. Not only I but my father, too, feel that these acts constitute the blackest and most shameful page in Japanese history."