Yamamoto gensui/山本元帥 [With English and Romaji subtitles]

山本元帥 / Yamamoto gensui / Admiral Yamamoto
Japanese national song
Singer: Hiromu Sakai, Nitchiku Chorus
Performer: Navy Military Band
Record released by Columbia Records in October 1943
Lyricist: Atsuo Oki
Composer: Navy Military Band
[About this song]
This song was produced on the occasion of the death of Marshal-Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. After his death, many record companies released songs in his honor.
[Rōmaji lyrics]
Aa nanmei no ikusa-naka
Shōsui no mi o sakigakete
Kumoma ni chiru ya hei no goto
Tada isshō no kō narite
Bankotsu karu to tareka iu
Dai-tōa sen okoru toki
Mikoto kashikomi ichihayaku
Waga kantai o hikiitsutsu
Teitoku yamamoto isoroku no
Tatsu ya gekimetsu amasu-nashi
Gōkikadan no senryaku ni
Tachimachi hofuru shinjuwan
Marai o furui ononokase
Soromon sango kazukazu no
Isao wa takashi kagayakashi
Minami no kiwami kita no hate
Agaru gaika ya otakebi ya
Geni zengun o shikka shite
Sono yūmei wa ten o tsuki
Ifū shikai o ooitari
Banri no hatō keyaburite
Hitotabi yukeba kaerazaru
Ketsui wa katashi sono uta ni
Kotoage sezu te kuni oishi
Kono seishō ni tsuzukazu ya
[Japanese lyrics]
あゝ 南溟の戦中
将帥の身を先駆けて
雲間に散るや兵のごと
ただ一将の功なりて
万骨枯ると誰か言う
大東亜戦起こるとき
御言畏みいち早く
我が艦隊を率いつつ
提督山本五十六の
起つや撃滅余す無し
剛毅果断の戦略に
たちまち屠る真珠湾
マライを震い戦かせ
ソロモン珊瑚 数々の
勲は高し輝かし
南の極み 北の果て
あがる凱歌や雄叫びや
げに全軍を叱咤して
その勇名は天を衝き
威風四海を覆いたり
万里の波涛蹴破りて
一度行けば還らざる
決意はかたしその歌に
言挙げせずて国負いし
この聖将に続かずや

[@extratrashvideos6404]

I was looking everywhere for an English one. Always coming in clutch!

[@DonMeaker]

If only he had turned down the order, and been able to explain why the order was no good. How many tens of thousands of lives would have been saved.

[@John_EMIYA_Miller]

Wouldn't have done any good. Japan's government was dead set in it's path and Yamamoto had already avoided numerous attempts at this point from the army for his anti-war opinions +(Manchuria Campaign, Tripartite Pact. Yamamoto HEAVILY opposed both in addition to being against the idea of messing with America)+. It was either retire or follow orders. So, he did what he had to, and took the third option: Go along with the government while secretly trying to fulfill his own agenda which was: one crushing victory against the Americans where their aircraft carriers are wiped off the board, sue for peace, war ends. Every move he made was for the sake of that plan, but due to bad luck and other admirals disregarding his orders due to factional differences that plan never materialized.
+Essentially, if the stars had managed to align and everything had gone according to Yamamoto's plan, the Pacific Theater would potentially have opened and closed on December 7th, 1941.+

[@Flsh32]

First, but great video like aways