Japan goes after countries in East Asia, U.S. vowed to protect China and told Japan to get out. They didn't, and Japan's leader Hideki Tojo made plans to strile first even while Japanese officials continued talks in Washington, U.S. broke Japanese code and knew attacks were coming December 7, 1941. U.s. thought it would be in the Phillipines.
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Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was in charge of the Japanese fleet including those which attacked Pearl Harbor in Dec. 1941. Vice Admiral Nagumo was in charge of the Japanese attack force, but under the command of Yamamoto.
Admiral Husband Kimmel was Commanding on 7 December 1941. He was relieved of Command before the smoke had settled by Chester Nimit who took over as CINCPAFLT's commander.
Isoroku Yamamoto planned the attack, but Hideki Tojo, Prime Minister of Japan, ordered the bombing.
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was Commander in Chief of the Japanese Combined Fleet that attacked Pearl Harbour.
The Japanese Navy and the United States Navy.
At the time of the Japanese surprise attack in 1941, Pearl Harbor was a US Naval base. So the person in charge was the ranking Naval officer in Hawaii, Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel. The Japanese Commander of the force that atacked Pearl Harbor was Admiral Chūichi Nagumo.
no it wasn't seeming no Japanese ground forces were used
the Japanese did not lull the US into an attack on Pearl Harbor. the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, not the other way around.
On the fateful morning of December 7, 1941, the commander of American naval forces at Pearl Harbor was Admiral Husband E. Kimmel. His army-counterpart in charge of the ground forces was Lieutenant General Walter C. Short.