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The Death of Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo
By Jack Adamson
When interviewed in the late s by John Toland for his book, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, Takeshi Hirakushi told a fantastic tale. Hirakushi was a former major of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) and the senior surviving Japanese officer of the Battle of Saipan. His eyewitness account of the Japanese defense of Saipan through the lens of the top brass and culminated in his witnessing the deaths of the island’s three most senior Japanese officers: Lt. Gen. Yoshitsugu Saitō , Maj. Gen. Keiji Igeta, and Vice Adm. Chuichi Nagumo. Nagumo, in particular, was described as quiet and withdrawn during the battle, and it is implied that he was unjustifiably unassertive of his authority over Saitō and Igeta. The Rising Sun was a masterpiece of its time, and Hirakushi’s account in it has been referred to as gospel by many historians ever since.
Problematically, however, much of Hirakushi’s story does no
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Chuichi Nagumo
Chuichi Nagumo () commanded the Japanese aircraft carrier striking force during the early stages of the Second World War. He lead this force in the raid on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor and the battles of Midway, Eastern Solomons, and Santa Cruz Islands.
Chuichi Nagumo was born in Japan in , during a crossroads period in Japanese history. The island nation had existed as an almost completely closed society for two hundred years, following the defeat of Shogun Hideoshi's invasion of Korea in By the early 19th century, small European settlements had been established in Japan, but trade with the outside world was nonexistent. All this changed overnight in , when Commodore Perry sailed into Tokyo Bay and forced the Japanese to open their borders to international trade.
Rush to Modernity
In the wake of Perry's exploits, Japanese authorities began a remarkable effort to develop a modern navy. They were assisted by European navies eager to sell their equipm
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