Yes, Japan, particularly its leadership and many individuals, came to regret the attack on Pearl Harbor, viewing it as a strategic blunder that awakened a sleeping giant, leading to eventual defeat, with Emperor Hirohito expressing dismay and some veterans showing remorse and seeking reconciliation. While the initial aim was to cripple the U.S. fleet for territorial expansion, the failure to destroy carriers and the subsequent galvanization of American power led to deep regret, exemplified by Admiral Yamamoto's anxieties and later apologies from Japanese officials and veterans.
Analysis and hindsight from historians over the years that have followed have led to a view that Japan regretted its decision to attack Pearl Harbor. In 2014, a biography on Emperor Hirohito revealed that the Japanese leader was wary of attacking the USA and that doing so could have consequences for his nation.
Emperor Hirohito let it be known to General MacArthur that he was prepared to apologize formally to General MacArthur for Japan's actions during World War II—including an apology for the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor.
President Franklin D. Roosevelts address to Congress after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor would reportedly write in his diary, “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
For 2,000 years Japan had never been defeated. There was no word for "surrender" in the Japanese dictionary. And although the Japanese government never believed it could defeat the United States, it did intend to negotiate an end to the war on favorable terms.
The Japanese, naturally, were disappointed to hear of Hitler's death. They were more concerned, however, over how Germany would react. After the collapse of the fascist regime in Italy, Italian fascists formed a rump state and continued to fight on, and the Japanese hoped that Germany would do the same.
WW2 soldiers carried condoms primarily for disease prevention (STDs like syphilis and gonorrhea) and for practical combat uses, such as keeping sand and mud out of their rifle barrels, protecting small items, or even as makeshift waterproof bags, although the weapon-protection use is sometimes exaggerated in popular culture. The military distributed them widely (often in "prophylactic kits") to maintain troop strength, recognizing the significant manpower lost to venereal diseases in past conflicts.
Hitler reacted to Pearl Harbor with surprise, excitement, and relief, believing Japan's attack would distract the U.S., prevent American intervention in Europe, and ultimately aid the Axis war effort, leading him to unnecessarily declare war on the U.S. himself four days later, a move considered a major strategic blunder that brought America fully into the European war. He was ecstatic that Japan's actions would divert American resources away from the European theater, especially while Germany was struggling in the Soviet Union.
Tora! as "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." Yamamoto in 1940. Yamamoto is said to have written the quote in real life, but there is no evidence of this.
Source: Wikimedia Commons at https://tinyurl.com/mh8zrttp. “Tora Tora Tora” was the Japanese code expression for the signal to begin the attack on Pearl Harbor. “Tora” is a Japanese word that means “tiger,” but the full phrase is considered an abbreviation for totsugeki raigeki, which implies “lightning attack.”
One of the biggest mistakes the Japanese made was not destroying the smallest American ships in Pearl: our submarines. They survived and put to sea to destroy more Japanese tonnage during the war than the Americans lost at Pearl Harbor. And the biggest mistake of all? Underestimating the American public.
The main defensive argument was the alleged crimes had yet to be established as international law and Japan's actions were in self-defense.
When news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor reached Churchill, he immediately realized what that meant: The United States would now have no choice but to take part in the war. In his own words, written in a history of World War II, Churchill said that night he “went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved.”
Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle of the Army Air Force led a group of 16 B-25 bombers on a raid over Tokyo as retaliation for Pearl Harbor and a reminder that American bombers could still reach the Japanese homeland.
“The idea that she can hear the in-plane radios while sitting back in Hawaii is nonsense,” says Reynolds. “Planes did not have radios like that. And the control-tower scene is ludicrous. These things are pure Hollywood and have no relation to reality.”
"No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb. We know now that a nation can have peace with the Nazis only at the price of total surrender."
One of his subordinates, with whom he worked closely and who survived the war, has quoted the Admiral as saying, early in 1941, that “if we have war with the United States, we will have no hope of winning unless the United States fleet in Hawaiian waters can be destroyed.” To Yamamoto it seemed a foregone conclusion ...
A veteran of Japan's crushing defeat of the Russian Navy in the Tsushima Strait in 1904, he was wounded in combat, losing two fingers and suffering abdominal scars from shrapnel. Given his naval experiences, Yamamoto believed that a single decisive battle was the only way to secure a Japanese victory.
On December 7, 1941, Kermit Tyler was called about aircraft approaching Pearl Harbor and told the radar tech not to worry about it. His reply has been debated for the past 80 years.
Then, saying "It is finished, goodbye", Hitler took Eva back into their rooms for the last time. During the afternoon Hitler shot himself and Eva took the poison capsule that he had given her.
Stalin admitted that the enemy had succeeded in breaking through, and he urged his compatriots to annihilate the intruders with every means possible. Many Soviet memoirs attest to the power of his words, which reached out to millions of citizens clustered around primitive radios or streetside loudspeakers.
'Bad' girls have always known how to look after themselves. Barrier methods were always very popular. A halved, emptied lemon skin placed over the cervix worked well, for example, as did sponges soaked in natural spermicides such as vinegar.
By the end of the war, approximately 7,000 of the 10,500 SIS staff were female. These women on the home front contributed to the Allied victory by successfully breaking codes and deciphering enemy messages. The women cryptologists were held to strict secrecy and would become one of the best-kept secrets of WWII.
The Bible literally has zero to say on condoms.