by Mark LoProto | Jul 27, 2018 | Before The Attack, Japanese Leaders, Pearl Harbor News
Japanese Prime Minister Gen. Hideki Tojo hadn’t even seen the results of the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor when he started to declare Japan’s ability to defeat the United States and Allied forces in the Pacific. It’s known that the Japanese leadership had...
by Mark LoProto | Jul 5, 2018 | Attack of Pearl Harbor, Japanese Leaders, World War II
Hideki Tojo was born on December 30th, 1884. His father was Hidenori Tojo, a well-respected officer in the Imperial Japanese Army. Tojo received a typical education for Japanese young men of the time. Meiji-era education revolved primarily around training boys to grow...
by Mark LoProto | May 29, 2018 | Attack of Pearl Harbor, Japanese Leaders, Pacific Theater
In September of 1941, 33-year-old Lt. Cmdr. Shigekazu Shimazaki was assigned to be the equipping officer of the aircraft carrier Zuikaku, which had been commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy just days prior. It was in this capacity that he and his ship,...
by Mark LoProto | May 22, 2018 | After The Attack, Japanese Leaders, World War II
Causing the deaths of 2,403 individuals would in most cases be considered illegal without question. In times of war, however, the rules can be a bit murkier. In the Pacific Theater, over 100,000 Americans died in battle, but these deaths weren’t war crimes. They were...
by Mark LoProto | Mar 12, 2018 | Japanese Leaders
To many in the Japanese leadership in 1941, there appeared to be only one way to get the United States to back off and allow their expansion across Chinese territories: a military attack to destroy the US Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor. The plan drawn up by...
by Mark LoProto | Nov 22, 2017 | Japanese Leaders
When the decision to attack the naval base at Pearl Harbor was brought to the table in response to the American involvement in what Japan considered its Pacific affairs, it’s commonly believed that all of Japan supported the decision. The proud nation felt it was...
