 Among these three themes only the second is recorded in any detail in the notebooks that were recently discovered and published by Ōhashi as the “Ōshima Memos.” Although there may well have been preliminary discussions on how to avoid war, more explicit references to overthrowing Tōjō Hideki, and more lengthy discussions about postwar issues, these do not in fact show up in the recovered notebooks. Nevertheless, the “Ōshima Memos” do show us a more detailed and uncensored account of the Kyoto School’s “war of thought” on two fronts during a tumultuous and tragic time of what was, in fact, Japan’s imperialistic response to Western imperialism.