The attack was devised and fashioned by Admiral Yamamoto, whose entire military career seems to have been leading to this very moment. On the morning of December 7, 1941, Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) aircraft set out on one of the most famous operations in military history: a surprise air attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawai`i. Re-envisioning Asia: Contestations and Struggles in the Visual Artsĭownload PDF Detail from Shugaku Homma’s painting of Yamamoto, 1943.Distinguished Service to the Association for Asian Studies Award.Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies Award.Striving for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Asian Studies: Humanities Grants for Asian Studies Scholars.Gosling-Lim Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southeast Asian Studies.Cultivating the Humanities & Social Sciences Initiative Grants.Key Issues in Asian Studies Book Series.Connect, Collaborate, Contribute: AAS Membership Recruitment Drive.AAS Takes Action to Build Diversity & Equity in Asian Studies.AAS Community Forum Log In and Participate.The Japanese dug in and held the islands until mid-1943, when American and Canadian forces recaptured them in brutal invasions. It was the first time since the War of 1812 that American soil had been occupied by an enemy. After bombing Dutch Harbor, Japanese forces siezed the tiny islands of Attu and Kiska. But at the same time as this battle was taking place, a Japanese aircraft carrier strike force thousands of miles to the north was attacking the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. Navy, and was later regarded as the most important battle of the Pacific Campaign. losses amounted to a single carrier and 307 deaths.
At the end of several days of fighting, the Japanese Navy had lost four aircraft carriers and nearly 250 aircraft and suffered more than 3,000 deaths. Aircraft launched from Midway Atoll and from carriers of both navies and flew hundreds of miles, dropping torpedoes and bombs and fighting one another in the skies. On June 3, 1942, the Battle of Midway commenced. American codebreakers deciphered the Japanese plans, allowing the U.S. aircraft carriers and occupy Midway Atoll - a tiny but strategically important island nearly halfway between Asia and North America, that was home to a U.S. Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan prepared to deal one more decisive blow to the U.S.
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