letters from Iwo jima, by Clint eastwood

Tadamichi Kuribayashi
General in the Imperial Japanese Army.

Kuribayashi was designated as deputy military attache to Washington DC in 1928. for two years Kuribayashi traveled across the US, conducting extensive military and industrial research. for a short time he studied at Harvard university. he accurately evaluated the overwhelming industrial capacity of the US. in one of his letters to his family he said, "it is desperate to enter the war with the US"