Word: nagano
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nagano's Arc. The pattern of these skirmishes, both naval and verbal, indicated that both sides have some pretty heavy plans for the South Pacific. On the Japanese side, the man responsible for plans was the man who had Secretary Knox on the edge of his chair-Chief of Staff Osami Nagano. He must orient his plans, whatever they may be, to the situation in which Japan now finds herself. It is an excellent defensive position. To the east there is a stretch of Pacific across which the U.S. would hesitate to send an all-out amphibian invasion, knowing...
...logic of this defensive pattern imposes on Admiral Nagano an ironclad duty: he must, either by defensive or offensive measures, make the southern arc secure. Because the U.S. now grows strong south of his arc, he will have to fight to do his duty. The only way to guess how he will fight is to know how all Japs fight. By last week, officers returning from the South Pacific had told some of the truth about how Japs fight...
Admiral Osami Nagano knew the 5-5-3 ratio well. He was instrumental in Japan's defying...
...ratio was invented at the Washington Naval Conference of 1921-22. At the Geneva conference in 1932, Japan's delegate Osami Nagano proposed the abolition of aircraft carriers, long-range submarines, limitation of large offensive capital ships. If his proposals had been accepted, Japan would have been safe from transpacific attack, and could have pursued her ambitions in the China seas without fear...
...Admiral Nagano also represented Japan at the London Conference, 1935-36, and it was there that he finally blasted the 5-5-3. A Navy man primarily, narrow, naive politically, he kept drumming at the theme of parity, although he knew the idea could never be accepted. Toward the end he said to a British delegate: "If I do what you like, when Nagano goes back, wzzt!"-and he raked his fingers across his throat. The same throat a few days later intoned the death notice of the conference...