Isoroku Yamamoto was the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Imperial Navy during the Second World War. He was a veteran of ...

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 naval hero, succeeds ...

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, mastermind of Pearl Harbor, was killed on April 18, 1943, when U.S. forces intercepted his flight plan and launched Operation Vengeance. A squadron of P-38 Lightnings flew a ...

Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, Japan’s chief naval strategist during World War II, was a gambler who “won large sums on poker, bridge, shogi—Japanese chess—and the Japanese game of stones known as ‘go.’” He ...

Two letters written by the head of Japan’s imperial navy during World War II are being exhibited for the first time at a museum in northeastern Japan. The letters from Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto to his ...

ALBANY, N.Y.-- A group from the U.S. and Japan is trekking to a remote Pacific island jungle to document what is considered one of the most important wreck sites of World War II: where American ...