Yamamoto, Isoroku, << YAH muh MOH toh, EE soh ROH koo >> (1884-1943), commanded the Japanese combined fleet at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, during World War II. He was one of Japan’s great admirals, with a long and distinguished career in war and peace. He opposed the policies that led to war with the United States. But he sponsored the plans for the Pearl Harbor attack as Japan’s only chance of victory in the war in the Pacific. Yamamoto was born on April 4, 1884, in Nagaoka. He was killed on April 18, 1943, when his plane was shot down in the South Pacific.
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See also Yamato .
