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  1. Isoroku married Reiko Mihashi in 1918; they had two sons and two daughters. [5] Early career. Yamamoto (left) with his lifelong friend Teikichi Hori as young officers of the Japanese Navy, 1915-1919. Yamamoto graduated from the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1904, ranking 11th in his class. [6] .

  2. After several love affairs with geishas and a brief courtship, Yamamoto married a sturdy but pretty housemaid named Reiko in August 1918. They would have two sons and two daughters. The couple had no sooner set up housekeeping than they were separated.

  3. Jul 3, 2019 · In 1918, Yamamoto married Reiko Mihashi with whom he would have four children. A year later, he departed for the United States and spent two years studying the oil industry at Harvard University. Returning to Japan in 1923, he was promoted to captain and advocated for a strong fleet that would allow Japan to pursue a course of gunboat diplomacy ...

  4. Childhood & Early Life. He was born on April 4, 1884 in Nagaoka, Niigata, as the sixth of the seven children of Sadayoshi Takano and his second wife Mineko. Isoroku means 56 denoting the age of his father when he was born. His father was a school teacher who belonged to a samurai family.

    • Yamamoto’s dad was a Samurai. Yamamoto was born Isoroku Takano on April 4, 1884. His financially struggling family was headed by a one-time Samurai named Sadayoshi.
    • He fought at Tsushima Strait. Yamamoto graduated from the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in time to see action in his country’s 1904 war with Russia. He fought the Battle of Tsushima aboard the cruiser Nisshin.
    • He was a man of many vices. A natural risk-taker, Yamamoto was something of a card shark in his free time. He enjoyed games of chance, especially poker, and often said that if his career in the navy went bust, he’d happily open a casino in Monte Carlo.
    • He lived in America for four years. Two extended visits to the United States taught Yamamoto about much about his future adversaries. He studied English at Harvard University from 1919 and 1921 and then spent another two years as an assistant naval attaché in Washington beginning in 1926.
  5. Oct 25, 2024 · Yamamoto Isoroku (born April 4, 1884, Nagaoka, Japan—died April 18, 1943, Solomon Islands) was a Japanese naval officer who conceived of the surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

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  7. May 21, 2018 · At age 30, Yamamoto married Reiko Mihashi, daughter of a dairy farmer from his own province and a woman who bore him four children. Although he engaged in intensive Buddhist meditation, he made no secret of his relationships with "ladies of the night."