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Pearl Harbor was one of the close motivational events in the Statesn history. From the very beginning japan and America had their own social views and stereotypes ab verboten each other that a hostility was bound to occur. On December 7, 1941 the nation of Japan sent out a fleet of their Imperial navy to attack the American held menial on the island of Oahu. Leading this attack was Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto who was a militarily strategic genius. Yamamoto was planning on sinking the entire American peaceable fleet so the U.S navy could be put out of the warfare for the time being and the Japanese navy could continue their expansion in the Southwest Pacific.(book)(Gordon Prange 136-138) Isoroku Sadayoshi later known as Yamamoto was born in Nagaoka Japan August 4th, 1884. He was was the son of an impoverished school teacher, Takano Teikichi, and his second wife Mineko. Isoroku belonged to the Echigo clan, a clan of warriors who had resisted unification of Japan during the re ign of the Meiji emperor. He was habituated the name Isoroku which meant 56 by his father who was that age when Isoroku was born in the small village of Kishigun Sonshomura which was an island that produced mostly sailors which would be an influence in Isorokus love of the sea and navy. At age 16, after taking combative examinations, He enrolled in the Naval Academy at Etajima, off the shoring up of Hiroshima where he overtook rigorous physical and mental training.Graduating in 1904 as one-seventh in his class, he fought against Russias Baltic Fleet at Tsushima, a liberty chit between Japan and Korea, in an engagement recognized by historians as a major decisive battle. As an ensign on the cabin cruiser Nisshin,part of the protective screen for admiral Togo Heihachiros flagship Mikasa,Isorok... ...Pacific. In particular, he wanted to convey troops recovering from their ordeal on Guadalcanal. At age 59, he was tired, weary of war, and of life itself I have killed quite a some of the enemy, and many of my own men have been killed. So I weigh the time has come for me to die too. During the Guadalcanal conflict, his hair had turned snowy-white. In April 1943, U.S. countersign detected advance reports of general Yamamotos fleet, Eighteen American Lightning planes were waiting for the showtime attempt in history to ambush an enemy commander-in-chief in the air. On the 18th, his aircraft, under the escort of nine zeroes, was shot down by a P-38 near Kahili in southern Bougainville. On June 5, the admirals ashes were honored in capital of Japan at the nation wide ceremony, this was the largest tribute in Japan since Admiral Togo and both were in 1934.(Gordon Prange) (343-356)