Admiral Yamamoto.
Admiral Yamamoto
This quote comes from the movie, "Tora, Tora, Tora," uttered by Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. However, there is no historical basis for this quote.
It has been attributed that Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto said "We have awakened a sleeping giant", but there is no printed evidence that he actually said that.
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Most Japanese had been brainwashed into believing it was a good thing to attack America. But, Admiral Yamamoto understood it better than anyone when he said, "We have woken up a sleeping giant." He realized they should not have done the attack and that the war would not achieve what Japan wanted to achieve.
There is no evidence that Yamamoto actually said this. The quote comes from the movie "Tora, Tora, Tora."
Admiral Yamamoto of japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The quote was shortened in the movie- what he actually said was, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."[
The famous quote, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve," is attributed to Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
The awakening of a sleeping giant. (Either Yamamoto or Nagumo, not sure which Admiral said that one)
who in Macbeth said 'the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures'
The same day as Pear Harbor. As Admiral Yamamato said, "I am afraid that we have awoken the sleeping giant." Yamamato was the commander of the Pear Harbor attack.
By what he said, and how he acted before, you were sleeping with.