|translation = 2200… When I think about it, that great victory might be one of the causes of the devastating defeat that would eventually come later<ref>Asahi could be referring to multiple things here - that the victory at Tsushima inflated Japan's belief in its own capabilities by WWII, or that it fed the obsession with recreating another battleship-based decisive battle in Japan's WWII strategy.</ref>. Victory and defeat, glory and demise... One ends up thinking about a lot of things.
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|translation = 2200… When I think about it, that great victory might be one of the causes of the devastating defeat that would eventually come later<ref>Asahi could be referring to multiple things here - that the victories at the Battle of the Yellow Sea and at Tsushima inflated Japan's belief in its own capabilities by WWII, or that it fed the obsession with recreating another battleship-based decisive battle in Japan's WWII strategy.</ref>. Victory and defeat, glory and demise... One ends up thinking about a lot of things.