sentences: "The selected Hata for a part of what historian James William Morley described as a team of "young, objective diplomatic and military historians" to be given unprecedented access to primary source records to write the history of the origins of World War II in Asia.The result was "Taiheiyō sensō e no michi" ("The Road to the Pacific War"), published between 1962 and 1963 and then translated into English in the 1970s and 1980s.