Thiago S.’s Reviews > Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 > Status Update

"It gave the Japanese people a reason to believe they were fighting for something more than national aggrandizement. “If Japan had declared it was fighting only to add territory,” remarked Koshu Itabashi, a student at the outset of the war, “I don’t believe we ever could have gone as far as Borneo.