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While the article appears to have reasonably good sources, I found its organization confusing. The sections up to and including "Content" are fine. After that, on the one hand, we have a section saying the note wasn't an ultimatum (and this section is outside "Interpretations," lending it an air of objectivity); on the other, we have several sources describing it as such. The same section also claims that Japan had alternatives to war, but a later (unsourced?) sentence describes the view that war could have been avoided as a "fringe" belief. It would be helpful if someone with better knowledge of the topic could clarify whether there are points of scholarly disagreement here and, if so, to present them in a way that makes this clear to the reader; or, if there isn't serious disagreement, to clean up the apparent contradictions and state the consensus view. Layzner (Talk) 08:06, 31 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
