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Isoroku Yamamoto: Northern Japan
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Isoroku Yamamoto had made a wonderful beginning. The four syllables of his name may in future be pronounced twice as reverently as the two of Togo. Japan's greatest previous naval hero, victor of Tsushima, humiliator of the Russians. But if they are, it will be because Yamamoto, like Togo, follows through and makes his wonderful beginning just a beginning.
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Several motion pictures depict the character of Isoroku Yamamoto. One of the most notable films is the movie Tora! Tora! Tora!. The 1970 film, which depicts the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, is considered by many to be the definitive look at the battle from both sides of the conflict. The film features Japanese actor Sô Yamamura as Yamamoto.
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That same year, at age 30, Isoroku - now a lieutenant commander - was adopted by the wealthy and socially prestigious Yamamoto family. Such adoptions were a common practice in Japan: families lacking a male heir sought to keep the lineage from dying out. As Isoroku's parents had died several years earlier, he felt he could accept the Yamamoto's generous invitation. At a formal ceremony in a Buddhist temple, he took on the family name, which means "Base of the Mountain."
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In 1916, Isoroku was adopted into the Yamamoto family (another family of former Nagaoka samurai) and took the Yamamoto name. It was a common practice for Japanese families lacking sons to adopt suitable young men in this fashion to carry on the family name. In 1918, Isoroku married a woman named Reiko with whom he had four children: two sons and two daughters.
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After Isoroku Yamamoto graduated from the Japanese naval academy to fight in the Russo-Japanese War as an ensign. Ensign Yamamoto was wounded during the battle of Tsushima in 1905 by a Russian shell that hit the flagship Mikasa, which he was on.
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The tasks which confront the Japanese Navy will not provide pleasant afternoon outings for Isoroku Yamamoto and his subordinates. But they will be sustained in them by a deep resentment, something which hurts down around the breastbone. The Japanese have not known an easy life, and they think that this is so because Britain and the U.S. have kept them from their ease.
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