Sarah Paine: belief

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…When you were showing the things we learned from the diary entries of different admirals or generals on the Japanese side, as you were going through the archives and looking at these things, I'm curious, were they writing knowing that they were writing for future historians? Or was that actually just a personal record-keeping thing? What was the motivation behind it? I did not read that stuff in archives. Japanese Archives, I was doing strictly diplomatic stuff. The Admiral Ugaki Matome's diary, which is the one thing I cited on these subjects, it was translated. Someone ran into it, translated it into English, and so I just read the whole thing. And then the other stuff, the quotations, I think I was ripping off secondary sources where someone else had done the archival research. Then I pulled those, but those are where the quotations came from. So again, I haven't done this deep read into all of the Japanese thinking about all of these… of what motivated them in their careers. That I have not done. Was there some big “aha” moment when you were going through all this Japanese stuff where like, "I get why they did certain-" like, "Why certain things transpired in a certain way?"…

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