John,

I'll have to record and rewatch the program I only saw about 1/2 of it while on vacation. A few high level people tried to convince Hirohito to not attack the US because of the ultimate futility, but it fell on deaf ears.

>Prior to Pearl Harbor, Japanese Admiral Yamamoto said "In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success."
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>Yamamoto had studied in the USA and fully understood that US productive capability was so massive that unless war could be carried to the North American continent, his situation would soon become impossible. It is interesting to contemplate how he may have altered history had he not been assassinated in 1943.