Several scene cuts from the 2011 film Isoroku Yamamoto: C-in-C of the Combined Fleet, depicting the events and preparations leading up to the pre-emptive strike on American soil.
Yamamoto's line about "Drill That into your guts" was exactly how The C-inC spoke when his emotions were up. Remember that Yamamoto had WALKED thru Oklahoma and parts of Texas while he went to school at HARVARD (Yes, that Harvard!) Yamamoto was against War with America because he knew from the 1920's that Japan could not win. But he was also a Naval Officer. So when he was ordered to undertake the planning for the attack in Hawaii, he did as ordered, knowing that only a gamble might succeed. He told officials in Japan before Pearl Harbor that he "would run wild for six months. After that, he had no expectation of victory." Six months after Pearl Harbour was June 1942 and that battle was Midway.
@@samsmith2635 I must disagree. American forces did not blunder into Japanese forces at Midway. Your statement discounts the work of American code breakers, who were able to provide the name of "AF" (Midway) which was the target of the operational strike. America did not win at Midway purely on luck. They won on a mixture of work and luck. The battle came down to a broken radio on a Japanese scout plane launched from the Japanese Cruser Tone (Toe-nay) That plane could not report the position of the American Carriers to Kido Butai before the Americans found the Japanese.
@@rocistone6570 The way that they came upon the aircraft carriers of the Japanese Navy and the damage that they cause was very much chance. Yes, they both intended to meet each other there eventually, but the way the events unfolded showed uncanny luck in favor of the Americans
@@kempaku982 I stand corrected. Yamamoto had an abiding dislike for the arrogance of the Army, and their fixed thinking. He would have never considered himself a soldier.
Yamamoto liked the USA and he had been living there for a quite long time. He knew they couldn´t win the war, but he was a soldier and a soldier must obey. I don´t understand why so many still dislike this great man.
People dont take the time to really read and understand the facts. Yamamoto knew a war with the US was "unwinnable". Not only did he live in the US, he went to Harvard and studies mathematics , he was keenly aware of America's untapped industrial might..." All we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant...and filled him with a terrible resolve"...
Yamamoto didnt like many things Japan at the time had approved. Main thing was Pearl Harbour. He himself knew that they wouldnt win against the US. He also didnt approve of the construction of the Yamato class Battleships. But yeah, he was indeed a great man, he couldnt voice his opinions against the orders as he was merely just a soldier (and it was Imperial Japan lol, Honour comes first was the mindset).
They've never had that and now a days it's even worse. Politicians concern themselves more with re-election and looking-good than they are concerned with taking responsibility.
@@noahhughes2501 Oh for the love of god just shut the fuck up. I'm not really a fan of trump, but calling him a draft dodger as if there something wrong with that is stupid. The draft was wrong and hundreds of thousands dodged it, just saying. Why do you people even care?
The actor who plays Yamamoto absolutely nailed it. The guy speaks with incredible authority and poise, exactly what I would envision the real Yamamoto himself would have been like.
After Great War end, the Netherlands military was stationed in substitution for the Japanese military. Some Japanese militaries delivered a large quantity of weapons to Indonesian anti-Netherlands independent guerrilla against the order of the occupation army. And participated in Independence war from the Netherlands with a guerrilla by oneself while giving a guerrilla military training. Several thousand Japanese officers were sacrificed before independence was accepted Indonesia by the Netherlands. The most of Indonesians to know the fact thank for Japan.
The arrogance of the Netherlands to think that they would waltz in and reoccupy Indonesia, learned NOTHING from the 5 years of German occupation and how people hate being occupied.
This guy was so brilliant and so valuable that we risked the Japanese discovering that we had broken their Naval codes in order to make sure he was killed. By the way, as soon as Yamamoto heard that the Pearl Harbor raid had yielded zero carriers, he exclaimed, "the war is over." He knew his country was doomed.
@@osolsl9321 and in the battle of Midway he lost 4 carriers. While the only price is the Yorktown. His at least 1 years fighting back have been shorten.
The attack on Pearl Harbor was not aimed at an aircraft carrier. This is because the simulation (war game) that was done many times in advance had the result of losing in a decisive battle with a battleship. In the Imperial Japanese Navy, battleships were the main force of the fleet, and aircraft carriers were the vanguard to reduce the enemy fleet before decisive battles on battleships. It was from the Battle of Mariana that aircraft carriers became the main force.
@@kamkam_99 I am not sure what this has to do with Yamamoto's reaction to the result of the attack. Your point seems to accord with my memory of my graduate studies, but it has nothing to do with my comment.
@@osolsl9321 For some stupid reason the IJN thought they were fighting Russians. The last time the US agreed to negotiating a peace treaty was when the White House got burned down by the British.
One of Admiral Yamamoto's most famous quotes. After a meeting of the General staff where the Army commanders insisted Americans were weak and would be push overs for the "Samurai Spirit." Yamamoto urged against a war with America stating that our industry and innovation would make a war a losing proposition. The Army commanders got their way. Yamamoto came out of the meeting and told an aide "The Imperial Japanese Army has pushed us into a war the Imperial Japanese Navy will have to fight."
@@ROUKWA_S either way i don't know if those army realized if the army do anything to jeopardize the Navy. Then their homeland would be welcome by invision and the army who still far away can't do anything. If their Navy falls the army is useless and yet they still fighting like child.
@@ROUKWA_S He was right.. He said they had only 6 months to get America to Sue for Peace. Only June 7th the United States Navy sunk 4 Aircraft Carriers at Midway. It was 6 months to the day. I find that prediction spooky...
Inter-service rivalry happens between the armed forces of every nation - but it was apparently really toxic between the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy.
My thoughts exactly. When I read prepare to attack the U.S, England and Holland, I couldn't help but feel Yamamoto's inner cringe. Like, this is such a BAD idea. You would think they would ask the opinion of their top admiral who just happened to actually have BEEN to the country they're planning on declaring war against...
@@Morder1aEngland and Holland? He’d probably felt it wouldn’t be much of an issue. But America’s name showing up on those orders? Yamamoto had been there. He’d seen and learned of the industrial might and vast resources of America, learned the history of how Americans did NOT back down the many times they’d been dragged into war by foreign powers. Dragged. Into war. He’d likely known, that because the country tried to stay neutral throughout many wars, they’d seemed weak from an outsider’s perspective. But the way of America, was payback. Unrelenting, merciless, payback. Ten times worse to what her enemies would deal. When pirates in the 1800s attacked America’s ships, the entire pirate fleet, was wiped out.
Not sure about the rest of it, but 2 things they did get right. The order not to bomb civilian residential areas was actually issued and their belief that an attack without warning would ruin the name of their navy was valid. They actually did send a warning but there was a delay in the translation rendering it useless. And the Japanese high command was devastated when they learned of this. They truly did not want to attack without issuing some kind of warning.
All of that warning stuff was just cosmetics. I believe that they had planned to attack like a minute after the warning was issued? What kind of a warning was that?
@@hiteshadhikari "Weakness".... You are absolutely right. We should have dropped at least two more bombs and squashed that weak little shaman of an emperor.
10:26 that reminded me a real quote Yamamoto really said: "A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten"
おっしゃるとうりです。ちなみに、大東亜戦争について、戦後、占領軍の最高司令官マッカーサーは、日本が戦ったのは、Their purpose, therefore, in going to war was dictated by their own security 、すなわち、自衛戦争だったと米国の上院で証言しています。付け加えます、「裏切られた自由」を読めば、日本がアメリカの罠に嵌って戦ったことがフーバー大統領が綴っています。
3:30~ In the civil war of 1868-69, Satsuma and Choshu were the winners, and Nagaoka was the loser. Currently, the superior is from Nagaoka, and the subordinates are from Satsuma and Choshu. So that the chief officers were laughing. This is very hard for non-Japanese to understand the conversation .
For American context, it would be akin to a Carolinian (former Confederacy state) leading an Army group consisted of Ohioans and Massachusites (among the staunchest Unionist states in the American Civil War) in WW2
As an Indian, my last fear is of an Indian origin man fighting against India in Brirish Army. Hope , no Indian origin foreign citizen ends up in any NATO campaign against Indian interests. But yes, I can feel for those young aircraft fighters and their boss. Victim of fate, nothing else.
@天王平家万歳 Mauro Mejias LOL! You wouldn't happen to play the boardgame "Empire of the Sun" by GMT Games, would you? We could game WWII in the Pacific and see if Japan could change history.
天王平家万歳 Mauro Mejias, I can understand where you’re coming from. But, the men who attacked the US were Kamikaze’s. And Kamikazes didn’t really have a choice. Japanese soldiers were told that their lives hold no value. And that their sole purpose in life is to protect and serve the Emperor. The men who died fighting Pearl Harbor did what they had to do to have any meaning in their lives. Yes they were brave, but their whole lives were a lie. It’s not something to be proud of. I think Modern Japan is something to be proud of.
Byron Harano hi, let me translate (excuse my terrible English sentences) he says that the title of this video would make misunderstandings since this is not a Hollywood film “Pearl Harbour”but the Japanese one called “Isoroku Yamamoto, a commander of the Japanese combined fleet (I’m not sure it’s the official name tho...) ”By the way I apologize to you if you’re offended by those comments, I know their comments were nothing short of rudeness. (It’s nonsense to say “study kanji”)
@@seijikawanami4650 Oh Kawanamisan. Thank you. I was NOT offended about studying Kanji. I took Japanese language lessons for years, sadly because I never practically used my Japanese, written and spoken, skoshi Nihongu. Lol. Your English is better then you believe. Thank you for translating for me. Kawanamisan, Domo Arigato. Name is ADM Isoruku Yamamoto. Okay nice. He is a Harvard graduate. Air Wing Commander IJN Air Forces Fuchida survived the war, became a US Citizen and died a Born Again Christan. Our Battle Group steamed with Japanese Naval Defense Forces. We were impressed with the discipline of the Japanese sailors. I am happy we are strong Pacific Rim Allies!
The purpose, a motive made the war that Japan, whatever it is, resisted Western powers realize that colonialism was not eternity for them. The achievement is grand truly.
Yamamoto was a great man! Yes he was an enemy to the United States, at the time of his death, but that does not alter the fact that his heart was true. A brave warrior indeed.
Yamamoto knew about the Western (Anglo-American) perception of honour in warfare. Therefore he was aware that there would be hell to pay when the attack would come BEFORE war was officially declared. Their spirit would not be one of the vanquished, but of vengeance. They don't fight to the death when it can be avioded, but they will fight ON. Best summed up in Winston Chruchill's motto; Never, NEVER give up.
That unrelenting ferocity to fight on, I feel was best expressed with Enterprise CV-6. She came home to find Pearl on fire, ships sunk, men and women dead, some civilians even dead. And she wasn’t filled with dread, fear, or grief. Only rage. First, would come wrath, then later, mourning. Even her sisters died as she’d fight alone. But she would still see the war to the end. She was too angry to die.
Isoroku Yamamoto was the one who most reluctant in heart to under take this mission of surprise attack at Pearl Habor. He went to West Point and lived in the United States for severla years and knew all the ins and outs of the US military power.The question still remain is this really a 'surprise' attack.
as early as feb 1941, the sacked commander in chief of the US navy James O Richardson forecasted that the Pearl will be the subject of a surprise attack
@@francispacheco5687it was mentioned by General Billy Mitchell some 20 years beforehand that Japanese ships carrying aircraft would attack Pearl Harbour.
Yamamoto was a dinosaur. His battle tactics were overly intricate and prone to defeat because of divided forces. His defenses were biased toward what the IJN was good at rather than what his enemy excelled at, i.e. torpedo bombers instead of dive bombers. And he never grasped how to use *or* defend against submarines.
Lord Voldemort One of the reasons was because, he was a strong supporter of naval aviation, he took the time and listen to the advice of his younger junior command officials, like Minoru Genda.
Admiral Yamamoto was a true warrior. Loved his country and his men. He singlehandedly revolutionized naval warfare by using planes as a primary weapon instead of an auxiliary one. Much respect for him. Never wanted war with America but nevertheless did his duty. He was a legend. If there was a Naval hall of fame he would be first ballot. ❤️🤍🇯🇵🎌
So much a warrior that he ordered crews of merchant ships to be killed after the IJN subs torpedoed them. Lucky he got shot down, he would have been hanged as a war criminal.
Actually the Brits had done it at the battle of Taranto? when they sunk several Italian battleships. It was already understood that the carriers were the future before Yamamoto's Pearl Harbor attack.
Those special effects are incredible! It actually looks like real ships, especially the battleship at the beginning of this clip. I hope the guy in charge of special effects got a good paycheck.
@Peter Lorimer I researched the behind the scenes of The Battle of Britain. They actually used real German planes from the Spanish Air Force. I was impressed!
the zero only had 900 HP at the beginning of the war and had almost no protective armor. But it was light and maneuverable and well armed so was the best fighter in the pacific in '41 and into '42 but by '43 it was effectively obsolete, with America fielding the Hellcat with 2,000 HP lots of protective armor and self sealing gas tanks, a much heavier plane but with a higher ceiling and also faster at sea level.
I think if Yamamoto didn't die in the American ambush, the kamikaze attacks wouldn't happen and the Japanese wouldn't been so desperate to continue the losing war because the wise men like him would surely persuade the emperor no to do so.
Proud, stupidity and fanatique. Today, if someone crash a plan in a ship is called terorist but then? They blow up themselves hanging on us soldier to die togheter. Today, if someone did this is terorism. Different way to judge the same attitude.
,the bunch of old men with a spirit and bravery without remorse declared war. but the young men who took up arms went to the battlefield with courage or fear and between life or death...
It's a shame that the Oscar's don't really look outside the United States but I know nothing about the process. For a admiral that attacked my country I have the most respect for him.
Yamamoto counseled against war against the United States. He had witnessed the economic and industrial might of the United States first hand when he lived there as a naval attache. He bowed to the wishes of his government and designed the attack on Pearl Harbor although he knew the only possibility to win the war was to run rampant for a year and hope the Americans would sue for peace. Unfortunately he and the rest of the Japanese leaders did not realize absolute horror a pissed off Democracy could unleash and they also refused to admit the United States' military would be willing to fight until either they or Japan was completely destroyed or exhausted.
correction, not just a democracy, there were many. the sheer might of free-market capitalism powered the war, the largest industrial base that the world had ever seen. The US govt had the might of the free market American industry to power the war, no other country even came close.
Yah like the communists weren't in Roosevelts office, thats a famous story now. Like the US never imposed sanctions on Japan. But let us jingoists overlook our nations wrongdoings all together and play a victim the entire time
"Imposed sanctions on japan" Yes, because they were conducting, undeclared war and have conducted it so brutally. You mights not know this but the embargo wasn't the 1st time US and japan came to blow. During japan's campaign to china, japanese planes sunk 3 US ships with 3 flags raised. Japan was not peacefully drinking tea when US embargoed them.
When I lived in Japan, I used to use my "samurai" voice, all the time. I loved their samurai dramas/gekijo. I used to imitate Sanada Hiroyuki as I loved his Hibiki whiskey commercials. God this brings me back.
6:04 The reason they were able to fix that issue was because they studied the British naval attack on Taranto and stole the fix the British used to stop their torpedos hitting the sea floor in shallow waters.
The irony of the attack on Pearl Harbor was the destruction of the battleship which forced the Americans to rely on their aircraft carriers. Naval doctrine of the time still favored the battleship.
@@joshuadesautelsThen the only real fight the battleships got into was with Taffy 3's destroyers, destroyer escorts, and escort carriers at the end of the war. It is irony though that IJN carrier planes sank US battleships to start the war but the final Japanese ship sunk was the IJN battleship Yamato sunk by US carrier planes.
Soldiers of the Korean application abused for the captive of allied foces most cruelly.Most of prison guards of the prisoner of war camp which was under power in Japan were Korean volunteer soldiers.
Most were NOT Volunteers as Korea was a Japanese colony and was under COMPLETE Japanese control. Many of these Korean soldiers were greatly abused themselves by the Japanese. Guard duty at POW camps is usually assigned to "inferior" soldiers. You are correct though, many of these Koreans were the abusers of POWs.
my grandmother told us that it was the korean who was brutal also when they invaded here in the Philippines it was not the Japanese, they called the Koreans "Pulahans" or "Reds" because they have red arm bands to signify they were Korean auxilliary forces.
Hiroshi Abe looked very lithe to play Adm Yamaguchi. He also played another military officer in the dorama series A Cloud Upon a Slope: a general in the Russo-Japanese War whose brother was Adm Togo’s senior staff officer at the Battle of Tsushima.
I had two uncles serving at Pearl Harbor on Dec 7th. Another uncle serving who died during the war. I don’t hate Yamamoto. However if they hated Yamamoto and wanted him dead, I understand.
Yamamoto understood perfectly well the outcome of a war with the US. He lived there as a student and made quite a few friends with his fun and cordial personality. He knew he had to go for the jugular and hope American isolationism would hold sway. Instead when the Japanese ambassadors showed up the next day (not knowing of the attack) 'breaking off diplomatic relations' it was like salt in an open wound and only stirred the hornet's nest even worse. It was quite a thing a few years ago when a Japanese warship entered Pearl Harbor with flags raised and sailors on deck saluting.
The Japanese ambassadors didn’t know of the real importance on why they had to deliver the 14part message at 1PM EST on December 7, and that was 7AM Hawaii Time. The JPEMB Washington DC typist who drafted the message was horrendously slow in creating the final message and May have retyped it all at some point. To my recall, no other embassy staff helped him that morning at least those who were cleared to read the coded traffic and translate to English
People here obviously never learned about Japanese view of WWII and thus fail to understand Yamamoto. Yamamoto knew the Japanese couldn't beat the US however Japan High Command never wanted to beat the US in direct military combat. I don't know why people continue to believe this stupid ass rumor that Japan wanted to see a Rising Sun over the White House. The entire Japanese objective was always China, however Japan lacked resources to carry out a major war so they targeted European colonies in Asia since they were too busy with Germany and they sat on critical supplies like Oil and Steel. The problem is that the supply paths to these colonies would put Japanese merchant fleets in direct paths of US colonies. Japan knew the US kept close ties with the Entente Powers of WWI who were now at war with Germany who had the colonies in Asia Japan wanted. The solution was to try to strike such a critical blow against the US that it would suit for peace with Japan and allow Japan to carry out it's real objective in China. Since the Japanese navy had nothing to do against China, the idea of taking out the US Pacific Fleet and US Asian colonies made sense. Destroy the fleet, take their colonies: they can't fight against Japan. Hence why Japanese attacks in Pearl Harbor ignored Army and Oil targets that could cripple the US.
@@travelleryu: The Japanese invasion in China was unjustified. Any other military action that may be unjustified hardly changes that.The USA may have done wrong on many occasions but in this they were in the right.
The road to fame!!! Japan is one of the few countries who was brave to stand against the "poor and innocent USA!" The USA caused the attack on pearl harbour!!!
Yamamoto was an incredible man. He knew the risks and what the outcome would be if the US carriers were not destroyed. I wish he had survived the war (much like I wish Rommel and Patton had). The knowledge he carried was irreplaceable.
True, but high collars like those are terribly uncomfortable. Most militaries that have them call them "chokers" due to how restrictive they are. I can verify that they are just awful to wear.
@@timtheskeptic1147 Agree, if you visit Japan, current male school uniforms have collars in this shape still. You know this kind of formal uniform is just for good looking instead of function.
@@xuliang2121 most of us wouldn't close the collar until getting to the event requiring that uniform. They are very uncomfortable. The only person I've seen wear it for hours straight was the Captain was being promoted to Admiral.
My grandfather was right, being a Japanese enemy during world war2, that not all japanese are bad. Many are still good and stood with reasons. I salute you sir!
@@JB-yb4wn My point is, aren't there good and bad people in every country? I am saying that there are good people and bad people in every country. The Chinese are doing to the Uyghurs and Tibetans what the Japanese did to the Chinese, and the Americans are abusing prisoners of war in Iraq. The Germans and the Russians all have their bad guys and their good guys. You seem to have a special ill will towards the Japanese, is that a sentiment you feel you should pass on to the current generation? History should be taken seriously, but if you overload it with emotion and pass it on to the next generation, isn't that a crime worse than any war crime?
...then canon Nikon Pentax Olympus ,Toyota,Nissan,Honda, Suzuki Subaru Mitsubishi heavy ind, etc etc won the battle after the guns were silenced! It is easiest to win,through economy.
The US and White people are responsible for WW2 in the Pacific, who started this war. If I were Japan, I would freak out if I see the white man stealing 60% of Mexico’s territory, buying Florida by force, taking Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hawai, Guam, Philippines, Indonesia, India, Burma, Vietnam, Laos, Korea, Hong Kong, and getting closer and closer to Japan. I would certainly build my defense and grab some land since Chinese and all Asians are unable to defend themselves against the White man. And History paints the White man, especially the US like the saviours of Asia. Japan is seen as the sons of bitches. History needs to be re-written. Yes, Japan had to be the way they were, because the White man was getting closer and closer to their front yard. So the U.S.A. are responsible for for that war and all the wars around the world.
S0M30N3 - Well I’m like the NTSB who believes there are many reasons why airplane accidents happens. You’re thinking from 1930 and later. I’m thinking since 1821 when Mexico became free and independent, the year when The 13 United States (original name) sent illegal aliens to the West to plan how to steal 60% of Mexico’s territory. And then how the the U.S. and the Europeans decided to steal territory in Asia who were too dumb to defend themselves. Japan was the only country who saw the dangers the White men were bringing. Come on. We do the same thing, we freak out every time someone is cutting the grass from our front yard, like in 1962 when Russia tried to install missiles in Cuba. The NTSB doesn’t blame just the pilots or aircraft failures, they look at eeeeeeeeeverything.
S0M30N3 - So you’re right in some respect. But did they bomb because they love ❤️ to drop bombs on ships? Or because they get a kick out of seeing ships explode? I look at this war as a human being, not as a U.S. citizen. And we keep making the same mistake over and over, this time we are doing to Russia and China, the way we did it to Japan.
@@yolamontalvan9502 i agree with you 100%. What you fail to realize is that everything you enjoy today, every aspect of this society is because of the white man's ingenuity, drive and desire to be greater than average. Ask yourself where would Japan be right now without the white man? So take the good with the bad because that's reality.
