Everything I felt about outside.ofa.dog/book/168034/s/showa-19261939 applies here too. I learned a lot from this volume about how different WW2 looked from a Japanese perspective than from the Euro/USian ones I'm used to, and it makes a lot of things make more sense. Both why Japan wanted to expand the regional war it was already embroiled in, and how close it came to winning the battle for the Pacific.