“I fear that all we did was awaken a sleeping giant.”-Yamamoto Isoroku. This was the quote Yamamoto made after the successful attack on Pearl Harbor. Yamamoto is one of the best naval officers in history. If you know him you probably know him for taking us to war. But I bet what you didn't know is that this is exactly what he didn't want to do... According to Pearl Harbor information by Jacqueline laks gorman Isoroku Yamamoto was born on April 4, 1884 in Nagaoka Japan (43) .According to "Yamamoto Isoroku " by Thomas Hughes His birth name was isoroku Tankano. Isoroku, his name, meant his father's age when he was born, which was 56 (Thomas Hughes). He was the sixth child of Tankano (Thomas Hughes). He changed his last name because he was adopted by the Yamamoto family (Thomas Hughes). Both of his parents died and that's why he was adopted (Thomas Hughes). No one knew it yet, but he would grow up to be a warring mastermind as a naval commander and drag the United States into war! Isoroku was a very intelligent man. According to the book Pearl Harbor by Ernest Arroyo he graduated in Japan...