Long study can make historical figures feel almost like members of a historian’s family, and the visit is partly a search for reassurance that Yonai is remembered as he might have wished. The quiet memorial setting meets that expectation, and viewers travelling in Japan are encouraged to visit it. Yonai is described as an important figure whose name has been comparatively forgotten. In this interpretation, he helped create modern Japan and saved the country after the Second World War by influencing how the Allies treated it.
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Yonai’s place in modern Japan’s story
The closing reflection presents Yonai as an overlooked figure who influenced the Allied treatment of Japan after the Second World War.