Isoroku Yamamoto's post war fate if he survived WW2? - Page 3

Flamebatter90 · 05-15-14, 03:12 PM

^ Found an old article from 1954 about Yamamoto's and Chiyoko's relationship:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...g=5025,4442008

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...she found the admiral, then 51, "rude and unpleasant."
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But their romance blossomed after they found a mutual liking for cheese.

Oh Japan...

Jimbuna · 05-15-14, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Oberon

Yamamoto was a gambler, it was one of his favourite pastimes, and in this case, his gamble didn't pay off.

I wonder, if Yamamoto had survived the war, whether there would have been a scandal later in his life with Kawai Chiyoko, or whether it would have been hushed up and quietly kept under the rug, or kotatsu.

I doubt he would of been of much interest after the tribunal hearing.

Dread Knot · 05-15-14, 04:17 PM

The only possible atrocities I can see Yamamoto standing trial for would have to do with the actions of IJN sub crews machinegunning survivors of the ships they sank in the Indian Ocean. However, seeing as Dudley Morton aboard Wahoo did much the same thing, as with Donitz and unrestricted submarine warfare, I can't see Yamamoto being charged or convicted on those counts. Maybe the abysmal treatment of Allied POWs transported on "hell ships" might be thrown in as well. He'd most likely draw some "waging offensive war" charge, serve a decade or so, and emerge from prison to a radically different Japan in which he is proscribed politically and shunned officially much like the many jailed and released German officers.

Who knows? Maybe like Hirohito he would have eventually hung out with Mickey Mouse.

05-15-14, 04:17 PM	#33
Dread Knot Ace of the Deep Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,288 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	The only possible atrocities I can see Yamamoto standing trial for would have to do with the actions of IJN sub crews machinegunning survivors of the ships they sank in the Indian Ocean. However, seeing as Dudley Morton aboard Wahoo did much the same thing, as with Donitz and unrestricted submarine warfare, I can't see Yamamoto being charged or convicted on those counts. Maybe the abysmal treatment of Allied POWs transported on "hell ships" might be thrown in as well. He'd most likely draw some "waging offensive war" charge, serve a decade or so, and emerge from prison to a radically different Japan in which he is proscribed politically and shunned officially much like the many jailed and released German officers. Who knows? Maybe like Hirohito he would have eventually hung out with Mickey Mouse.