Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (April 4, 1884-April 18, 1943) is a notorious military figure, as he was the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet during much of World War II. Yamamoto was responsible for ...

t’s April 18th, 1943 and a squadron of P-38s races low over the waves of the Pacific, off the coast of Bougainville Island, ...

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (1884-1943) was the Japanese Naval commander who was given the order to attack Pearl Harbour, an order he was duty bound to obey which went against his own personal beliefs.

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto understood American power because he had seen it firsthand. He studied at Harvard, served as naval attaché in Washington, traveled across the United States, and grasped the ...

NAGAOKA, Japan – Seven decades after the death of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in an aerial ambush in the South Pacific, Japan is still struggling with how to remember the charismatic naval commander who ...

Next to Adolph Hitler, he was the most infamous man on the planet during World War II. For Americans, it was personal. He had been responsible for the deaths of more than 2,400 U.S. servicemen and ...

The Japanese attack on the US Navy at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, propelled the US into a war that had been raging for years. The US campaign had a mixed start. In April 1942, the success of the ...

(See Cover) A humble wireless set trembled last week with quasi-divine vibrations as the Son of Heaven himself sent Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander in Chief of the Combined Imperial Fleets, ...

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Izuru Narushima's well-crafted, rather old-fashioned and unquestioning elegy to Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, at once the strongest opponent to Japan's entry into WWII and its greatest naval hero, succeeds ...