As members of the Imperial Japanese Navy were celebrating their attack on Pearl Harbor, the man who designed the plan, Admiral Yamamoto, is alleged to have stated,” I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
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FACT-O-RAMA! There is little evidence to support the claim that Yamamoto ever made this statement.
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Apocryphal or not, exactly 1,384 days later, when the Japanese emperor announced the cessation of war, almost every city in Japan had been bombed, killing no less than 387,000 civilians.
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Japan surrendered, and the giant went back to sleep.
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