From EarthStation1.com's "J. C. Kaelin's 'About Me' Page":
"Isoroku Yamamoto (was) a *real* man cast by tragic destiny to lead his country into a war he hated, against an enemy he thought should be brothers, by means of a sneak attack he understood would infuriate that enemy into unconditional warfare. If only his vision of a grand Japanese/English Speaking Peoples alliance weren't so far away from possibility in his time. His contrarian vision ultimately cost him his life. A tragic hero of the ages. I pray for this good man's soul regularly, and I've learned much from his suffering and his grand example...To my mind, J-Pop is everything Tojo and his gang would have hated, and I daresay all Yamamoto and those of his lot would have smiled upon, and it says so much that the state of advancement of Japan's culture is now such that she unselfconciously sports Churchill's "'V' For Victory" hand signal as a customary greeting of peace and good will!"
ISOROKU YAMAMOTO: GRAND ADMIRAL IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY (45 Min., Color)
This early 1970s British/American documentary expounds upon much in J. C. Kaelin's statements above, interviewing those who personally knew him, including his eldest son, whose eyes shine with the same sparkle as his father's, and the American airman who years after killing Yamamoto when he shot down the plane he was a passenger in became a great admirer of Yamamoto the man as distinguished from Yamamoto the enemy. Every student of the Second World War in general and the Asia/Pacific Theater of World War II in particular needs to see this documentary!
BETWEEN THE WARS - AMERICA IN THE PACIFIC: THE CLASH OF TWO CULTURES (25 Min., Color)
Though the quality of the archival copy from which this DVD title was recorded was very poor, the quality of the documentary itself is very excellent and a gem within the 8000+ hours of video in the EarthStation1.com archives. Narrated by the greatly credible American journalist Eric Severeid, himself a World War II radio correspondent, it makes clear from the beginning that the bigoted nature of American diplomacy in the years before World War II had a direct relation to the rise of militarist rule in Japan which ultimately lead to Pearl Harbor. Did you know that the pivotal moment in the rise of Japan's militarist clique was the 1924 American anti-immigration laws that prevented Japanes from emigrating here simply because they were Japanese? There are more suprises here both for Japanese and American students of history!
FROM ENEMY TO ALLY (15 Min., B&W)
1969 Heart newsreel short subject on the political and economic rise of Japan from the ashes of World War II, the rule of General MacArthur, land reform (the only peaceful land reform to take place in all of 20th century Asia), the secularization of the Imperial family's status and, most importantly, the institution and maintenance of good relations between America and Japan.