Seasons & Episodes
Hakko Icchiu
December 7th, 1941. Just before dawn, 270 miles northwest of Oahu, Hawaii, 181 Japanese fighters and bombers prepared to
The Doomed Fleet
In the Fall of 1941, the naval and air base at Pearl Harbor and the escalations on Oahu, represented the greatest concen
The Joy of Fighting for the Emperor
Though they had not delivered the finishing stroke at Pearl Harbor, the Japanese had put the Americans and the British o
The Eagle Strikes Back
Japanese admirals stuck rigidly to the view that submarines were first and foremost an adjunct to the battle fleet. Even
High Noon
Even though Japanese war plans were habitually best-case and not worst-case, the military junta on the home island were
Revenge
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese were victorious in their endeavor to control as much of the western Pacif
Watchtower
The Americans were now ready to go on the offensive in the Pacific, but where? Early in the summer of 1942, the intercep
Silent Service
The Japanese war machine, checked and forced to change its plans for the first time at Coral Sea and decisively repelled
Sho Ichigo Sakusen
In December 1941, within hours of the destruction of the United States battle fleet at Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces beg
Lost Cause
By the fall of 1944, the harsh reality of the war in the Pacific became apparent to the Japanese high command. Finally,