I knew that the attack had been a bad idea.  Actually, it was a good idea, a brilliant one, from a military standpoint, but it still seemed to be a bad idea.  There were so many holes in the plan.  What if the aircraft carriers had been at the harbor?  Our planes would have been defeated easily.  What if our carriers had been spotted?  The element of surprise would have been lost.  And once again, our planes would have been destroyed.  There were so many ways for something to go wrong.  But the Americans were blinded by their thoughts of invincibility.  It was almost easy to slip in unnoticed and cripple the fleet.  And then, later, when the Americans retaliated, it was clear that they were no longer blinded.  Their attack was pointless to some, but it forced me to look at them and see what they were saying with their suicidal mission. Look at us, they were saying, We have courage, we have strength, and we will fight you!  And they did.  And they won, and we fell.  But we arose again, to become allies with that nation.  The same nation that scorned my people in America.  The same nation that herded them into concentration camps and sold their homes and shops.  Now, this anger must be put aside as we work to build a stronger Japan, a better Japan.