Yamamoto
, the man who planned Pearl Harbor increased my knowledge about the people of Japan because it introduced me to their culture, and the life and times in Japan before World War II. In Japan, the family is the basic unit of society. For example, if a Japanese has the unfortunate occurrence of producing only daughters, they will insist that one of their daughters husbands changes his last name to keep their daughter's last name alive. It was, also, not unusual for people to change their last names. Isoroku Tankano was born in 1884. In 1916, he changed his last name to , because the name was an honorable and ancient one in the history of Japan. One such figure was Tatekawa , who fought ...
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together, 2 sons, and 2 daughters. It was the standard Japanese family, the mother in charge of the household and of raising the children. He never really loved her, because he had many extramarital affairs, and 2 of the women he "loved". The life and times in Japan right before World War 2 are simply explained: The Imperialist Japanese Army, otherwise known as the "young Turks" was steadily gaining power in the government, was assassinating anyone who did not share in their views for a united Asia ( received many death threats, because he wanted to avoid war with the U.S.A. or with Great Britain at all costs), and was using propaganda to convince the Japanese to believe in a united Asia. The Emperor could not stop what was going on in his country because Emperors stayed out of the daily life of his people. When I say that the government is to unstable, I mean that it is too susceptible to being taken over by an army. For example, in the 1930's, the Imperialist Japanese Army was ...
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the details of 's flight, and F.D.R. himself ordered American pilots to ambush and the Japanese. Japan did not know that the U.S.A. decoded their signal. also had certain ideals, or standards of excellence. For example, he believed that the students at the Kasumigaura Aviation Corps were not being trained harsh enough, so he made the training there a lot tougher, he made all the students there shave their long hair, but he finished the security rounds for the students, showing he had a heart. Isoroku did not have to overcome many hardships on his climb to the top of the success ladder except for being poor. Another particular negative incident, which occured in 1928, when he was ...
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