The book story shows the practical barriers to naval-history research when an important text is scarce and untranslated. The volume will be photographed, with Drachinifel helping to apply Japanese OCR and build an English working version that could support a future video on Satō as a Japanese counterpart to Mahan.
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Recovering Satō Tetsutarō's naval thought from a Japanese text
A hard-won Japanese-language book opens a path to studying Satō Tetsutarō, a major Japanese naval theorist, through photography and OCR.