At the beginning of my research, my approach to this study was deductive; I sought to prove the hypothesis I drew from the existing research by gathering relevant resources. However, as I became absorbed in the resources accessible both at the archives (JRCS, ICRC, and IFRC) and through the online digital collections of the Japanese National Diet Library, I gradually came to question how I could contribute to the existing research by using the sources I came across. Thereafter, I decided to c...
