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Yamamoto made no such boast — the quote was taken out of context from a private letter in which he h ad made precisely the opposite point. He could not imagine an end to the war short of his dictating terms in the White House, he wrote — and since Jap an could not hope to conquer the United States, th at outcome was inconceivable. In fact, Yamamoto was one of the most colorful, ch arismatic and broad-minded naval officers of his g eneration. He had graduated from the Japanese Nava l Academy in 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War. As a 21-year-old ensign, he fought in one of the m ost famous sea battles in history — the Battle of Tsushima, in 1905, a lopsided Japanese victory tha t shocked the world and forced Czar Nicholas II to sue for peace. Yamamoto was wounded in the action and wore the scars to prove it — his lower midsec tion was badly pockmarked by shrapnel, and he lost two fingers on his left hand. In the course of his naval career, he traveled wid ely through the United States and Europe, learning enough English — mostly during a two-year stint a t Harvard soon after World War I — to read books a nd newspapers and carry on halting conversations. He read several biographies of Lincoln, whom he ad mired as a man born into poverty who rose to becom e a “champion” of “human freedom.” From 1926 to 1928 he served as naval attache in Wa shington; while in America, he journeyed alone acr oss the country, paying his way with his own meage r salary, stretching his budget by staying in chea p hotels and skipping meals. His travels revealed the growing power of the American industrial machi ne. “Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Det roit and the oil fields in Texas,” he would later remark, “knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.” Yamamoto didn’t drink; for vices, he preferred wom
en and gambling. He played shogi (Japanese chess), poker and bridge aggressively, and for high stake s. In Tokyo, Yamamoto spent his nights among the g eishas of the Shinbashi district, who nicknamed hi m 80 sen. (A manicure cost one yen, equivalent to 100 sen; since he had only eight fingers he demand ed a discount.) When Yamamoto appeared in uniform, on the deck of his flagship or before Emperor Hirohito, he was th e picture of hatchet-faced solemnity. But in other settings he was prone to sentimentality, as when he freely wept at the death of a subordinate, or p oured out his heart in letters to his geisha lover. During the political turmoil of the 1930s, Yamamot o was a leading figure in the navy’s moderate “tre aty faction,” known for its support of unpopular d isarmament treaties. He criticized the mindlessly bellicose rhetoric of the ultranationalist right a nd opposed the radicals who used revolutionary vio lence and assassinations to achieve their ends. He despised the Japanese Army and its leaders, who s ubverted the power of civilian ministers and engin eered military adventures in Manchuria and other p arts of China. As navy vice minister from 1936 to 1939, Yamamoto staked his life on forestalling an alliance with N azi Germany. Right-wing zealots condemned him as a “running dog” of the United States and Britain an d vowed to assassinate him. A bounty was reportedl y placed on his head. He received letters warning him of an impending punishment “on heaven’s behalf ,” and authorities discovered a plot to blow up a bridge as he passed over it. In August 1939, Yamamoto was named commander in ch ief of the Combined Fleet, the highest seagoing co mmand in the Japanese Navy. (As it placed him beyo nd the reach of his enemies, the appointment proba bly saved his life.) From his flagship, Nagato, us
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