Sarah Paine
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I want to rent an American car.
I can't find anything.
I'm going to kill everyone as I'm trying to figure out how to adjust something.
Whereas Toyota, it's like, and we're good.
I did not read that stuff in archives.
Japanese archives, I was doing strictly diplomatic stuff.
Admiral Ugaki Matamai's diary, which is the one thing I cited on these subjects...
Oh, it was translated.
Someone ran into it.
It's translated 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.
And then I pulled those.
But those are what 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.
Oh, well, this lecture was,
When I came to the Naval War College in 2000, they assigned me a couple of lectures because it's a group-taught class and everyone only gives two, three, four lectures.
And so I was junior.
I think I got one or two.
And so I was told to lecture on World War II Pacific.