Cloudy, Rainy, All-Day Wet
Dry, hot, and sun barked is the opposite to the current weather conditions around Tokyo, though temperature is as hot as around 30 degrees Celsius.
We call this rainy season "Tsuyu" in Japanese.
It is actually the fifth season for Japan in addition to the spring, the summer, the autumn, and the winter.
What is the fifth can be treacherous sometimes.
SECTION I: Operation Vengeance in 1943
Last night I happened to check the death of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of Japan's naval strategy in the Pacific including the attack on Pearl Harbor, though it was west of Papua New Guinea that he was ambushed fatally during in his flight for a front-line inspection on 18 April 1943.
(Click to enlarge.)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Vengeance
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When American codebreakers found out that he was flying to Bougainville Island to conduct a front-line inspection, 16 P-38G Lightnings were sent on a long-range fighter-intercept mission, flying 435 mi (700 km) from Guadalcanal at heights from 10–50 ft (3–15 m) above the ocean to avoid detection. The Lightnings met Yamamoto's two Mitsubishi G4M "Betty" fast bomber transports and six escorting Zeros just as they arrived. The first Betty crashed in the jungle and the second ditched near the coast. Two Zeros were also claimed by the American fighters with the loss of one P-38. Japanese searchers found Yamamoto's body at the jungle crash site the next day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-38_Lightning
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However, in fact, six Zero fighters of the Imperial Navy all returned without fatal damages, after shooting down one of 16 P-38s that attacked the fleet of Imperial Naval planes escorting Admiral Yamamoto, to the Imperial Navy base in Rabaul of the New Britain Island.
It is a kind of mystery that only six Zero fighter planes accompanied and convoyed a bomber carrying Admiral Yamamoto (and another with a key staff general on board) while hundreds of fighter planes were stationed and allocated around Rabaul and Papua New Guinea.
It is a kind of mystery that Admiral Yamamoto, so clever as to have succeeded in the Pearl Harbor Attack 17 months before, failed to foresee the danger of being ambushed in the air by U.S. Naval attack planes, though the air route in question had been used so safely by Imperial cargo planes flying between Rabaul and a front base in question till then.
However, details gave clues. The distance Admiral Yamamoto was to fly was linearly about 500 km (310 miles) from Rabaul to the front base, his destination for inspection; the distance U.S. attack planes had to fly was about 600 km (375 miles) in a straight line on one way, but they had to return over the same 600-km air way to an American air base in the Guadalcanal Island. Moreover, to avoid Japanese detection, U.S. planes had to fly more making a detour, which made the ambush impossible, since America had then no fighter planes that could fly so long and so far. Accordingly, the Admiral Yamamoto's bomber plane could not be ambushed. This must be a conclusion by Admiral Yamamoto. Critically, "how can Americans know our flight plan for this front-line inspection?" surely thought Admiral Yamaoto.
Nonetheless, U.S. Navy put an additional fuel tank to each P-38 fighter plane to fly over 1400 km (870 miles) there and back. America also perfectly decoded ciphers the Imperial Navy had been using, even before the Pearl Harbor Attack. Based on information obtained from the decoding, President Roosevelt in the White House approved in person the ambush for, and killing of, Admiral Yamamoto.
So, Admiral Yamamoto must have thought that his mission flight would be completely secretly and safely conducted, since America had no suitable long-distance attack planes while related communications were all done through the highest level of Imperial code language. So, Admiral Yamamoto must have thought that President Roosevelt must have been busy in the White House dealing with Hitler's menace.
Yet the truth was: U.S. Navy put an additional fuel tank to each P-38 fighter plane to fly over 1400 km (870 miles) there and back; America also perfectly decoded ciphers the Imperial Navy had been using, even before the Pearl Harbor Attack; and President Roosevelt in the White House approved in person the ambush for, and killing of, Admiral Yamamoto.
But, the story went on for some involved, especially Japanese pilots of the Zero fighters who disastrously failed in defending Admiral Yamamoto...
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Now, what lesson have you learnt?
It is truly difficult to win a battle against the U.S., since they have a technology to make a long-distance attack, an excellent ability to decode ciphers, and a president in the White House in charge in person.
(Note that the 22-Type of Zero fighter plane used by the Imperial Navy in WWII could fly over 2,000 km [3,300 km with an additional fuel tank] at the speed of 530 km/h, though you must not belittle Americans.
http://www.biwa.ne.jp/~yamato/zeke.htm )
(Note also that if I had been the commander of the Imperial combined fleet in WWII, I would not fly out for a front line inspection. When a commander is at a front, a decisive engagement mobilizing full forces at his command must be executed. It must be a war but not an inspection that should have been implemented by the commander 1,100 km distant from American major divisions in the South Pacific Ocean in 1943. Let a captain go to check morale of troops at the front. [Anyway, what should have happened to Admiral Isoroku Yamaoto if he had survived WWII to face the Tokyo Tribunal of War Criminals guided by General MacArthur?])
http://ww31.tiki.ne.jp/~isao-o/battleplane-5solomon.htm
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According to Jesus Christ, we should not blame our brothers.
It is, indeed, very easy to see a fault one's brother has committed.
But, if your brother eventually died in poverty, you had better suspect a plot he was involved in. He might have been in fact neglected to death by smarter guys around him.
If you spent one million dollars to save your brother living far, you cannot save him in such a case.
Truly, a near friend can be more trusted than a brother far.
A man of the same belief can be more entrusted a mission to.
But it is just a fate that you meet a woman who respects you in any situation.
But, your children will not even wonder what person you are critically.
So, leave your family and home town and go to Iraq or Afghanistan to save children contaminated by depleted uranium ammunition the U.S. and U.K. troops have used in this decade.
http://www.seattlepi.com/national/95178_du12.shtml
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Decades ago, when I was walking on a Tokyo street in the rainy season, I really felt it was too cool just wearing one long-sleeve dress shirt. That is the most impressive memory about this season in Tokyo in my life. You know, once, you could feel it was too cool just wearing one long-sleeve dress shirt on a Tokyo street in July or late June. However, I had no such memory in Osaka as the song is taking up...so many stupid guys have come from Osaka to Tokyo, including some lawmakers, in these years...A revolution never starts in Osaka, though Nomo and Ichiro, the successful Japanese MLB players, are more associated with Osaka than Tokyo.)
Mat 7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
Mat 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
Mat 7:8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.