The Pacific War Papers: Japanese Documents of World War II

Two nights ago, I was reading an interview with Admiral Kondo in 1947 on naval operations. I also read a Japanese account on the assessment on the US air raid on Truk which saw the destruction of over 325 Japanese aircraft, 270 of which were destroyed on the ground.

The Japanese documents in this collection are mainly from the Gordon Prange collection which are mostly concerned with pre-war research leading up to Pearl Harbour. Over 70% of the book are mostly pre-war papers. Only the final 30% which includes an assesssment of the Java Sea battle and more deals with the conduct of the war.

However, the original Japanese points of views are very illuminating. Now, here is something that is as close to a primary source as possible and as such can be considered as one.