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MU: Apparently you were not surprised that Pearl Harbor happened then?
TM: Certainly, I was surprised, but I don't know in what form this was going to take place.
MU: This eruption...
TM: I don't know how the war was gonna start, but I was surprised.
MU: You were.
TM: Especially when without warning, you might say, she came to attack. I didn't think it was right, I thought it was coward, you know. And they say that in Japan. Shoot, shoot people from the back, or in the back, they have a saying in Japan.
MU: Contrary to the samurai code.
TM: Contrary to the old tradition.
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