REALIZACIÓN DE PAGOS

The Japanese were repeatedly insulted into attacking the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and the U.S. top

commanders allowed it to happen.

The first shocking insult to Japan was the uninvited arrival of Commodore Perry in Tokyo Bay on March 31, 1854. Japan had been a closed, feudal, and primitively armed society

prior to the arrival of four black painted, black smoke bellowing American battleships, armed with gigantic guns.

The Japanese were frightened and quickly deduced that they better co-operate with these battleship borne Americans who

wanted access to Japanese ports and goods or else. It was quite the wake-up call for Japan. I read about Commodore Perry’s “Gunboat Diplomacy” in grade school,

but didn’t realize the significance of it as a boy.

Jump to 1898, when the Japanese watched their neighbors in the Philippines being subjugated and massacred by Americans. The Japanese knew all about the Balangiga massacre campaign

in 1901 from their neighbors and began preparing in earnest to repel those murderous Americans who, for all they knew, had

designs on invading Japan soon.

Americans and Europeans were swallowing up all the Pacific Islands and were doing peculiar things in China such as causing an opium epidemic (the Boxer Rebellion didn’t occur without cause). The Hawaiians were all but killed off by European peoples’ diseases while the Americans established a naval base there. Hong Kong had become a British naval base. The Japanese thought correctly that the

white devils must be stopped!

By 1904, the Japanese were well armed and had built a modern navy. They even defeated Russia in a war that lasted from February 8, 1904 until September 5, 1905. The Russians

had been encroaching on Japanese territory in hopes of obtaining a Pacific warm water port.

By the late 1930’s, Japan was aggressively obtaining raw materials and oil from Manchuria by military invasion having almost no raw materials itself. The U.S. was blatantly arming

and actually fighting on the Chinese side of that conflict. Do you recall General Chennault and “The Flying Tigers?”

On July 2, 1940, President Roosevelt signed The Export Act that essentially became a Japanese embargo on fuel, oil, iron,

steel and such materials essential to Japan’s growing military industrial complex. Japan was feeling strangled not to mention

thoroughly insulted.

The last economic warfare insult was the freezing of all Japanese assets in the U.S. in July of 1941. By then the

Japanese had had it and planned and prepared for a war with the U.S.A.

When the entire Japanese battle fleet, including six aircraft carriers and 408 aircraft, embarked from northern Japan on November 26, 1941, every Japanese sailor and pilot thought they were headed for a brutal stand-up fight. Japanese Samurai

code holds that there is no honor in killing a sleeping enemy. With few exceptions, Japanese military officers of higher rank

were Samurai.

The Japanese secret communications code had been broken BEFORE the events at Pearl Harbor. Even the 1944 Republican presidential candidate, Thomas E. Dewey, knew

about this explosive information, having heard it in the strictest confidence from Joint Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, and could have used it to demonize incumbent President Roosevelt, and would have surely won the election.

Dewey chose not to do so. Having already broken the Japanese secret communications code, American military intelligence knew when and from where the Japanese fleet had

embarked, and exactly where it was headed. U.S. Navy Admiral Kimmel and U.S. Army General Short, who were the

commanders of the U.S. military assets at Pearl Harbor, were purposely not informed of the Japanese fleets’ intentional

movement.

All of the vitally important American aircraft carriers were sent out to "probe" the open sea during this time without escort.

The reasoning why escort was not used was that the carriers weren’t to be slowed down by escort. All the escort ships were lined

up at Pearl Harbor like ducks in a row. The Army aircraft at Hickam Field were also clustered up along the flight line like ducks in a row as a hedge against saboteurs. Locking them in hangars with posted sentries might have worked better against

On the morning of December 7th , 1941, two Japanese reconnaissance aircraft were launched from a carrier to scout

the composition and position of the American fleet. The Japanese pilots had volunteered for this probable suicide mission. They flew at will over Oahu, somehow without being detected, and reported the bad news that the carriers were not

in port.

A U.S. destroyer, the U.S.S. Ward, sank a Japanese midget submarine near the entrance to Pearl Harbor before the attack

but Head-Quarters required confirmation. The skipper of the Ward was extremely frustrated that his word was not enough

confirmation. So we did strike the first blow after all, albeit they were on "our turf".

The new radar installation at Opana Point detected the Japanese battle fleet approaching but H-Q advised the operators to “forget about it.” The radar crew shut down and

took the day off... for a short while. Head Quarters figured,

incorrectly of course, that what the radar crew detected was a_{flight of expected incoming B-17’s, which was classified}

information.

Watch a documentary called, "Sacrifice at Pearl Harbor", which can be found on YouTube for the whole convoluted story of events that morning. Basically: America got its ass kicked in the so called sneak attack, a new Navy in the Pacific theatre

was now needed to replace the obsolete and seriously damaged one; Roosevelt got his war, and America was up in

arms and eager to be fed into the meat grinder. Japanese Admiral Isoru Yamamoto put it succinctly after the attack when he declared, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.” Which is an odd thing to be said by a victorious commander who became

extremely depressed thereafter. He knew Japan had been suckered.