Satō Tetsutarō's hypothetical enemy: the United States as the imperial Japanese Navy's most capable adversary, 1902-41

• Main Author: Au-Yeung, Justin Ho
• Other Authors: -
• Format: Thesis-Master by Coursework
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Social sciences::Military and naval science::Strategy::Asia
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/168710
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Despite being dubbed the Imperial Japanese Navy’s (IJN) ‘most foresighted planner’, Satō Tetsutarō remains critically understudied in the scholarship of the IJN and its defence policy. This dissertation explores the following questions: How did Satō’s hypothetical enemy concept manifest itself in Ja...