Donated by the naval officer’s descendants, the two letters are now on display at the Fukushima Museum in Japan to mark the ...

Undated photo of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto AP Photo The big break for the U.S. came on April 13, 1943, when Navy code breakers discovered that Yamamoto planned to tour bases in areas of the Solomon ...

Sixty-eight years and two days ago, Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor awakened what Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto called a "sleeping giant." Nearly 60 years later, the attacks that turned civilian airliners ...

Isoroku Yamamoto (1884–1943) was the son of a schoolmaster named Takano, and the famous surname by which we know him belonged to the family into which he was adopted.

Isoroku Takano was born in Japan on April 4, 1884, and adopted into the Yamamoto family in 1916. He graduated from the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy the same year Admiral Husband Kimmel ...

Admiral Yamamoto Izuru Narushima's well-crafted, rather old-fashioned and unquestioning elegy to Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, at once the strongest opponent to Japan's entry into WWII and its greatest ...

Japanese Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto was the Osama bin Laden of his day. So in April 1943 – 16 months after the attack on Pearl Harbor – when the U.S. Army Air Forces had an opportunity, ...

Marshal Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto commanded the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II until he was killed in April 1943. Despite the dialogue from the 1970 WWII film "Tora!

Isoroku Yamamoto is a venerated figure in Japan and a sinister figure in U.S. history. As commander of the Japanese navy beginning in 1939, ...

With a bit of hyperbole, Mr. Lehr explains that Isoroku Yamamoto was blamed by Americans for all this bloodshed and waste. Their enmity was misplaced, he argues: In reality, Yamamoto was a ...

Admiral Yamamoto Izuru Narushima's well-crafted, rather old-fashioned and unquestioning elegy to Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, at once the strongest opponent to Japan's entry into WWII and its greatest ...