Sarah Paine

ideas of that you just persevere, loyalty, honor, duty, keep going.

All right.

I'm going to be quoting this gentleman's diary, Admiral Ugaki Matome.

He was the chief of the staff of the combined fleet until his plane and Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku's plane were shot down.

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code breaking was quite good.

We figured out where they were and we...

killed Admiral Yamamoto, but this man survived.

And by the time he wrote this entry, he was the head of an air fleet on the home islands sending kamikaze flights out because Japan simply lacked the ability to do too much else this late in the day.

And here,

is his last diary entry written on August 15th, 1945.

This is after two atomic bombs had been dropped and after the Russians had deployed into Manchuria.

And he said, okay, there are various causes for today's tragedy.

And I feel that my own responsibility is not light, but more fundamentally, it was due to the great differences of national resources between the two countries.

Okay?

It's too late to come to that conclusion.

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production statistics had been on the books forever, but when Japanese read these numbers, they thought they were ludicrously high and discounted them as propaganda.

And those who knew better, who'd done tours of duty in Britain or the United States, they weren't promoted because they were defeatists.

I believe that Admiral Ugaki kept and maintained his diary is because he was an honorable samurai.