"Japanese Studies on Manchuria" Topic
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Tango01 | 27 Mar 2020 12:27 p.m. PST |
"Through Instructions No. 126 to the Japanese Government, 12 October 1945, subject: Institution for War Records Investigation, steps were initiated to exploit military historical records and official reports of the Japanese War Ministry and Japanese General Staff. Upon dissolution of the War Ministry and the Japanese General Staff, and the transfer of their former functions to the Demobilization Bureau, research and compilation continued and developed into a series of historical monographs. The paucity of original orders, plans and unit journals, which are normally essential in the preparation of this type of record, most of which were lost or destroyed during field operations or bombing raids rendered the task of compilation most difficult; particularly distressing has been the complete lack of official strength reports, normal in AG or G3 records. However, while many of the important orders, plans and estimates have been reconstructed from memory and therefore are not textually identical with the originals, they are believed to be generally accurate and reliable…." Main page ibiblio.org/pha/monos Amicalement Armand
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robert piepenbrink | 27 Mar 2020 1:03 p.m. PST |
With all due respect to OCMH, "we don't have the contemporary documents, but after they lost the war the Japanese told us this was what the documents would have said" does not spell "generally accurate and reliable" to me. Any memoir has value only to the extent it's checked against contemporary records, material remains such as terrain, and other memoirs. No one's memory of what they screwed up is as clear and sharp as their memory of what they got right. So this is not history. It may, perhaps, be material from which history can be constructed. |
Tango01 | 28 Mar 2020 12:17 p.m. PST |
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