[
US
/jɑmɑˈmoʊtoʊ/
]
NOUN
- Japanese admiral who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 (1884-1943)
How To Use Yamamoto In A Sentence
- In April 1943, America's intelligence decoded a Japanese message that informed them that Yamamoto was going to visit the northern Solomon Islands on April 18th.
- Kishida's older sister Eriko Kishida was a poet and children's book author and her cousin Shin Kishida played the title creature in Michio Yamamoto's 1971 film LAKE OF THE VAMPIRE. Crush of the Week: Kyôko Kishida
- Once he learned of the disaster that had struck his carriers, Admiral Yamamoto, still hundreds of miles to the west with the main battlegroup, reversed course.
- Admiral Yamamoto, as supreme commander of the Fleet, was particularly conscious of this naval responsibility.
- Often compared to short-story masters such as Katherine Mansfield, Flannery O'Connor and Grace Paley, Ms. Yamamoto concentrated her imagination on the issei and nisei, the first- and second-generation Japanese Americans who were targets of the public hysteria unleashed after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Hisaye Yamamoto, short story writer who chronicled post-WWII Japanese American life,dies at 89
- Valerio Mezzanotti for The New York Times From left: CÉLINE, an asymmetrical wool coat over a turtleneck and slim two-tone trousers; YOHJI YAMAMOTO, an asymmetrical dress in wool flannel, the back sheer to the waist; HAIDER ACKERMANN, a cutaway satin jacket and extra- wide belt over tapered satin pants. NYT > Home Page
- Yamamoto was opposed to conflict with America.
- Many critics have observed that Yamamoto is not unsympathetic to the plight of issei men.
- Yamamoto's Midway Force had also detached a powerful Aleutian Screening Force to act as distant cover for Kakuta but this was withdrawn when the battle off Midway failed to go Yamamoto's way.
- Admiral Yamamoto, as supreme commander of the Fleet, was particularly conscious of this naval responsibility.