by Mark LoProto | Oct 12, 2018 | History, Japanese Forces, Japanese Leaders, WWII in America
As World War II started to draw to its inevitable conclusion, the Japanese became increasingly desperate. Japan, which had had been suffering crippling defeats, wasn’t about to go down without causing as much damage to their enemies as they could. That included...
by Mark LoProto | Sep 10, 2018 | Japanese Leaders, World War II
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the devastating war that followed, many Americans wanted revenge, and some got in the most unexpected ways. One of the oddest might be the story of Tojo’s teeth. Jack Mallory, a US Navy dental prosthetics specialist,...
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...
