I greedily relished Yamamoto’s “We have awakened a sleeping giant” statement:
Alas, though he was a huge critic of Japan’s war drums and had studied at Harvard, he never actualy said those words.
People love that quote and it’s false. People aren’t going to want to hear that.
Yamamoto did, though, make numerous other statements warning of the possible or even likely course of the war on America.
Another tidbit I learned just last year:
The Japanese Fleet went totally undetected during their approach to Hawaii, right?
Wrong:
The whole fleet was seen by Soviet warships, which did radio their discovery of the fleet in an unusual location back to Stalin.
The Soviets FOR SOME REASON didn’t warn the US —no one knows why.
This is a very little reported bit of history.