It is possible to identify precisely where a unit was at any given time during the war and what happened to it. Original war diaries can be found at the Public Record Office.

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“(Hyakutake’s diary) is a significant record penned by one of the close aides to the emperor documenting the process of how Japan’s leaders led to the war,” he said. The descriptions in ...