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"Wars are started by the old, but the ones who die are young people. The government won't protect the youth. I want you all to understand that well," said 96-year-old former Imperial Japanese Navy sailor Kuniyoshi Takimoto during a lecture at the Shinmachi Campus of Doshisha University here.

mainichi.jp/english/articles/2

Powerful message. I wonder if his oral history has been recorded by historians. The more personal the microhistory, the more useful and effective it is at conveying the experience.

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