Comments on: TPR’s Simple History of the Attack on Pearl Harbor - December 7, 1941 太平洋横断放送の真 湾攻撃の簡潔な歴史　-　昭和十六年十二月八日　 http://www.transpacificradio.com/2006/12/07/pearl-harbor/ Independent Podcasting from Tokyo. Featuring Seijigiri, a discussion of Japanese news and politics, as well as TPR News, our twice a week look at Japan's top stories. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:33:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: 川村けんとの「いい加減にします」 http://www.transpacificradio.com/2006/12/07/pearl-harbor/#comment-5052 Tue, 26 Dec 2006 07:20:37 +0000 http://www.transpacificradio.com/2006/12/07/pearl-harbor/#comment-5052 <strong>アメリカも計画していた奇襲による日米開戦</strong> 　旧暦十一月六日。霜月しもつき、乃東だいとう（夏枯草）生ず。大礒正美「よむ地球きる世界」より平成十八年十一月二十七日「米側で同時進行した日本本土奇襲開戦計画」　クリント... アメリカも計画していた奇襲による日米開戦

　旧暦十一月六日。霜月しもつき、乃東だいとう（夏枯草）生ず。大礒正美「よむ地球きる世界」より平成十八年十一月二十七日「米側で同時進行した日本本土奇襲開戦計画」　クリント…

]]> by: DeOrio http://www.transpacificradio.com/2006/12/07/pearl-harbor/#comment-3396 Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:17:44 +0000 http://www.transpacificradio.com/2006/12/07/pearl-harbor/#comment-3396 Of course. Yamamoto <em>could</em> have said it, the debate is only over whether or not he <em>did</em>. It's widely quoted, with various stories, but there seems to be no certainty as to where it came from. No one that has been interviewed or found remembers actually hearing him say it - it wasn't public, he didn't keep a diary, it doesn't appear in any extant letter (at least that is publicly known.) The quote appeared later during the war, but seems to have first appeared in English. Now, although Yamamoto spoke English, it wouldn't make any sense at all for the Admiral of the Japanese Fleet to have issued a concern apparently intended for his compatriots in any language other than Japanese. Yamamoto did, though, make well-documented statements to the effect that attacking the US would be a mistake and that a Japanese victory would be unlikely and pyrrhic at best. Of course. Yamamoto could have said it, the debate is only over whether or not he did. It’s widely quoted, with various stories, but there seems to be no certainty as to where it came from. No one that has been interviewed or found remembers actually hearing him say it - it wasn’t public, he didn’t keep a diary, it doesn’t appear in any extant letter (at least that is publicly known.) The quote appeared later during the war, but seems to have first appeared in English. Now, although Yamamoto spoke English, it wouldn’t make any sense at all for the Admiral of the Japanese Fleet to have issued a concern apparently intended for his compatriots in any language other than Japanese.

Yamamoto did, though, make well-documented statements to the effect that attacking the US would be a mistake and that a Japanese victory would be unlikely and pyrrhic at best.

]]> by: Fred http://www.transpacificradio.com/2006/12/07/pearl-harbor/#comment-3363 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:30:26 +0000 http://www.transpacificradio.com/2006/12/07/pearl-harbor/#comment-3363 I came across the original 'sleeping giant' Yamamoto quote about thirty years ago. As we hear/read it today, creative editing and selective invention. I may have come aross it in some of the Gordon Prange writings from his interviews. 'Sleeping giant' was not part of the statement. As a graduate of Harvard, it would have been easy to have come up with something close to what we read. But as I remember, it was more of a straight forward statement and not that colorful. I came across the original ’sleeping giant’ Yamamoto quote about thirty years ago. As we hear/read it today, creative editing and selective invention. I may have come aross it in some of the Gordon Prange
writings from his interviews. ‘Sleeping giant’ was not part of the statement.

As a graduate of Harvard, it would have been easy to have come up with something close to what we read. But as I remember, it was more of a straight forward statement and not that colorful.

]]> by: DeOrio http://www.transpacificradio.com/2006/12/07/pearl-harbor/#comment-3104 Sun, 10 Dec 2006 16:40:23 +0000 http://www.transpacificradio.com/2006/12/07/pearl-harbor/#comment-3104 Quite a bit, actually. The director of <em>Tora, Tora, Tora</em> said his producer found the quote in Yamamoto's diary, which is great, but for the fact that Yamamoto didn't keep a diary. Yamamoto was on his flagship near Japan at the time of the attack, he wasn't in the attack group, so Hollywood's version doesn't wash (incidentally, he never wore a beard, either.) In all likelihood, he didn't issue that remarkably-handy-for-American-wartime-propaganda quote and the real question is: Whence did it come? I, of course, can't answer that, but I wouldn'tbe surprised to find out it was an American invention, considering it has the Admiral of the Japanese Fleet saying exactly what American propaganda and history books would go on to say. Handy. Yamamoto did, though, say what I quoted him as saying near the end of that article and was clearly in line with the rest of the Navy high command in opposing the Army and being opposed to doing anything that would bring the Americans into the War. Quite a bit, actually. The director of Tora, Tora, Tora said his producer found the quote in Yamamoto’s diary, which is great, but for the fact that Yamamoto didn’t keep a diary. Yamamoto was on his flagship near Japan at the time of the attack, he wasn’t in the attack group, so Hollywood’s version doesn’t wash (incidentally, he never wore a beard, either.) In all likelihood, he didn’t issue that remarkably-handy-for-American-wartime-propaganda quote and the real question is: Whence did it come?

I, of course, can’t answer that, but I wouldn’tbe surprised to find out it was an American invention, considering it has the Admiral of the Japanese Fleet saying exactly what American propaganda and history books would go on to say. Handy.
Yamamoto did, though, say what I quoted him as saying near the end of that article and was clearly in line with the rest of the Navy high command in opposing the Army and being opposed to doing anything that would bring the Americans into the War.

]]> by: Gary F http://www.transpacificradio.com/2006/12/07/pearl-harbor/#comment-3100 Sun, 10 Dec 2006 16:25:34 +0000 http://www.transpacificradio.com/2006/12/07/pearl-harbor/#comment-3100 What do you mean, Yamamoto 'reportedly' made the 'sleeping giant' comment? Is there some kind of question on that? What do you mean, Yamamoto ‘reportedly’ made the ’sleeping giant’ comment? Is there some kind of question on that?

]]> by: Japan Probe -Japan News & Culture Blog » Blog Archive » Japan News for December 07, 2006 http://www.transpacificradio.com/2006/12/07/pearl-harbor/#comment-2674 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 23:39:15 +0000 http://www.transpacificradio.com/2006/12/07/pearl-harbor/#comment-2674 [...] -December 7th, 1941: A date which will live in infamy. Trans-Pacific Radio writes about the Pearl Harbor on the 65th anniversary of the attack. [...] […] -December 7th, 1941: A date which will live in infamy. Trans-Pacific Radio writes about the Pearl Harbor on the 65th anniversary of the attack. […]

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