In the first week of June, 1942, the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the Aleutian Islands and Midway. The latter action was also meant to ambush and destroy the US Navy’s carriers.
The Aleutian landings were successful, but the Battle of Midway ended disastrously for Japan, with the sinking of all four of the Japanese carriers involved.
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Tojo Hidecki? Was that a mistake? Or was that really his name?
I always thought his name was Hidecki Tojo.
Traditionally, the Japanese put the family name (Tojo) first and the given name (Hideki) second, as do people in many East Asian cultures, but when speaking in a Western language to Western listeners, most Japanese people give their name in the Western order, e.g., Hideki Tojo, and most Western writers follow this practice when writing about Japanese people in English or any other Western language. In the podcast, I have stuck to giving Japanese names in the Japanese order, because in speaking names of foreign people or places, I prefer to present the name as they would in that country, as I also do with Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku, for example.