Zitat des Tages von Isoroku Yamamoto:
The example afforded before the Great War by Germany - which, if only it had exercised forbearance for another five or ten years, would by now be unrivaled in Europe - suggests that the task facing us now is to build up our strength calmly and with circumspection.
It is like a disease to think that an invincible status has been achieved after being satisfied with the past successful operations.
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
Unless more efforts based upon long-range planning are put into military preparations and operations, it will be very hard to win the final victory.
I was once the captain of Akagi, and it is with heartfelt regret that I must now order that she be sunk.
People who don't gamble aren't worth talking to.
A man of real purpose puts his faith in himself always. Sometimes he refuses even to put his faith in the gods. So from time to time, he falls into error.
Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.
I sincerely desire to be appointed Commander in Chief of the air fleet to attack Pearl Harbor so that I may personally command that attack force.
I felt from the start that America was not likely to relinquish lightly positions established at the cost of such sacrifices, and I pressed the view that a high degree of preparation and willingness to make sacrifices would be necessary on our side, but everybody here always persists in facile optimism until the very worst actually happens.
If a war breaks out with the United States, the navy will have to put all its strength into interceptive operations, so... massive sea-borne supplies might be momentarily interrupted.
Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments.
Even though there wasn't much damage, it's a disgrace that the skies over the imperial capital should have been defiled without a single enemy plane being shot down. It provides a regrettably graphic illustration of the saying that a bungling attack is better than the most skillful defense.
