We hear news that the ships of the 'sleeping giant', that Admiral Yamamoto had warned us that we had awakened, still approach.

我们听说这个巨人的舰队此刻依然在向我们逼近。

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Japan’s leading military officer, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, warned Japan was going to war for oil, and would be defeated because of lack of oil.

日本的主要军事将领海军上将 IsorokuYamamoto当时警告日本，为了石油加入战争到最后很可能因为缺乏石油而战败。

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Admiral Yamamoto was forced to call off his attack and sail home.

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Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto launched the battle.

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And he did not dismiss Chester Nimitz after Admiral Yamamoto was shot down without a trial and Japanese merchant vessels were sunk in blatant disregard of Geneva conventions.

ECONOMIST: Bush or Kerry?

But defenders of the right to kill selectively cite the shooting down of Japan's Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in the second world war, which was quite a cold-blooded business though he was clearly an enemy combatant.

ECONOMIST: Assassinations

But al-Qaeda has a quasi-military structure, and plenty of precedents exist for killing enemy commanders in wartime: in April 1943 America ambushed Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese naval commander, on the express orders of President Franklin Roosevelt.

ECONOMIST: Assassination