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Military Briefing on Pearl Harbor (Japanese Perspective)
Written by: Daniel Rogers
Pearl Harbor: Military Briefing

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

After pondering deeply the opportunities and military status of our Empire today, we have decided upon a risky but not to be missed opportunity to begin expansion into Western territories. Our first point of attack will be Pearl Harbor. This decision calls for extraordinary and drastic military action to be taken. Despite the seemingly overwhelming odds of failure we must approach this mission pragmatically and exploit any and every possible advantage we discover. Currently U.S.A scum regard most of if not all Western territories including the Pacific region under their authority which they have seized control of. We will prove them wrong. The ignorance and selfishness of taking control of so many more territories when they already have so much land demonstrates their evil nature of thieving and greediness. God does not wish such luxuries to be imposed on those who are so undeserving. And so it is our Emperors and God’s wish that we rightfully take what is so rightfully owed to the people of the Great Empire of Japan. The current embargoes placed on our Empire today are in no doubt suffocating the very life out of our war effort. We cannot afford to sit back and be constantly bullied and persecuted by the evil Westerners while our expansion grinds to a halt. We must do something, we must retaliate… we must attack!

Given our current situation we must neutralize or subdue the U.S. Pacific Fleet in the Pacific region in order to prevent U.S. forces from interfering in our current military actions in South East Asia. The current position of these American warships is close enough to Japan to inflict a swift attack given they are ordered to do so. Also they will mean a strong resistance when expanding into Pacific territories in the future. The primary targets (carriers and warships) are located at the naval base at Pearl Harbor. The expansion of our Empire is dependent on this

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