My book, The Reluctant Admiral, is a biography of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander in Chief of the Combined Fleet of the Japanese Empire. It is set in Japan during the 1930's to 1943 when Isoroku Yamamoto was assassinated by American P-38 Interceptors during an inspection tour. Historically, Japan during the 1930's and 40's was facing the Great Depression. Not only that, but they also were part of the Tripartite Pact and so they were allied with the Nazi Third Reich, and Fascist Italy. Japan itself had a surge of militarism and imperialism in its government, culminating with Hideki Tojo and Yamamoto's attack on Pearl Harbor, which brought the United States of America into WWII. As of now, the book has Japan's imperialistic conquests in page 4. "Greeting Ishiwara,he asked where he was going. Ishiwara replied that he had been appointed commander of the Sixteenth Division and was on his way to Tokyo. he was to have an audience with the emperor, and intended to advise him that the present war (the China Incident) should not be allowed to continue". It has also mentioned the fact that Yamamoto will plan the attack on Pearl Harbor on the first page, "If one were to bring together a group of people who did not know what Yamamoto looked like, and to ask them which of these twenty-odd men was the one who in later years was to plan the attack on Pearl Harbor and oversee the fleet that carried it out," but the book is not yet into that point. The people of Japan had different viewpoints of what is happening. Some people, like Yamamoto did not want to go to war, meanwhile others did want to go to war against countries such as China. Even so, most people in the navy agreed that it would be unwise to declare war on the United States of America or the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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Nathan Edbrooke
4/19/2018 08:42:07 am
I do not believe this quote needed to be there, "If one were to bring together a group of people who did not know what Yamamoto looked like, and to ask them which of these twenty-odd men was the one who in later years was to plan the attack on Pearl Harbor and oversee the fleet that carried it out,"
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Fernando Mora
4/23/2018 08:34:15 am
In the rubric, it said that it was required to have a quote from the book to support the claim
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