Word: yamato
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...attack, a desperate Japan played small cards for high stakes last week-and lost. In two disastrous days 417 Jap planes went spinning into the sea. In 30 fateful minutes of the second afternoon, two cruisers, three destroyers and her last naval trump, the 45,000-ton battleship Yamato, were battered to the bottom...
...central Philippines-off southern Luzon, Samar and Leyte. Long-range scouts from Mitscher's carriers spotted the Japs' central and southern forces, ploughing through the Sibuyan and Sulu Seas. The central force was spearheaded by two new battleships of more than 40,000 tons, the Yamato and Musahi; three oldsters, the Nagato and the durable Kongo and Haruna. Shepherding them were eight cruisers and 13 destroyers. To the south were the 29,000-ton Huso and Yamasiro, going on 30 years old, four cruisers and seven or eight destroyers...
...Premier General Hideki Tojo told his nation that "there is only a hair's breadth between victory and defeat," warned that Japan must pay a high price for victory: a national service law, all-out production of ships and planes, increased taxes, spiritual mobilization on the frenzied Yamato pattern exhibited at Tarawa, Makin, Attu...
...Spirit. Tojo spoke not in desperation but from knowledge of his people, their obedience, credulity, imperturbability in the face of hardship. Japan's soldiers, peasants and factory workers expect to win the war; their trump is Yamato Damashii, the "unquenchable spiritual force" of the Japanese people which must match the earthier power of the U.S.'s bigger guns, faster planes, heavier ships. They know Japan has conquered a rich empire, believe that the peoples of East Asia are united against the Western powers. Few of them seriously doubt the extravagant claims of continued victories, because they have...
...splendid palace on the peninsula of Yamato, the mighty Emperor Jimmu celebrated his various successful aggressions by offering up sacrifices to Ama-terasu-Ö-mi-Kami, sometimes known as the Sun Goddess, his great-great-grandmother. Thus was founded (so Japanese chroniclers say) the Empire of Japan...