Because it wasn't the Yamamoto he was thinking of, which was the admiral who had died in the war. The name was a guess--he'd hoped it was a common enough family name.

When in doubt, guess Henrik Larsson

Yamamoto was the last name! You say the family name first in Japan, Richard explains that

@@Liam2ushrodNo, Yamamoto is the first name BECAUSE it’s the surname. It isn’t the given name.

If they’d accept Churchill as the name of an English PM they rightly should accept Yamamoto as well

​@icturner23 That's literally what he said. Read the statement properly.

They may also (or at least should, in order to keep it fair for contestants) get all three categories at the same time, and either try to name one in every category, or zoning in on a specific one

So you should be, they were amazing!

Lies

What u spend on £3000?

@@catherinearnold9423that’s a lot of money

Just seen this not surprised you’re so proud you have a great mum and dad there.

I've never seen the film Pearl Harbour and I've never heard of Tojo. I have heard of Yamamoto.

@@Buggaton Americans have heard of Yamamoto because he both directed the attack on Pearl Harbor, and led the Japanese side during the Battle of Midway. I'm not sure how much emphasis a British education places on the Pacific theater in WW2, but if they teach anything at all about it, they would simply have to cover both of those events, so Yamamoto's name would inevitably come up.

@@NYKevin100 In answer to the question of how much the UK education system teaches the Pacific theatre, I'd have to say absolutely none. I never learned about it. It was all Battle of Britain and D-Day and all the flashy stuff that made us look good, not any of the horrible shit in the Pacific or the Eastern Front. My grandfather flew a Spitfire in the Pacific too and yet... I learned nothing of it. To me when I think of Yamamoto I think of the West Wing episode and clip "We killed Yamamoto" where they hilariously get the Battle of Agincourt incredibly wrong! But that isn't very helpful either :D

⁠@@BuggatonJust about the most stupid comment I’ve seen on KZbin.

Chiefly because at this time he was playing for a mid table belgian club?

@@Manivilization He was still playing for Japan and performing extremely well. Been a lot of buzz around Endo all his career, this comment was made while he was still at Stuggart who at the time were an irrelevant mid table Bundasliga club

Chiefly because he wasn't in the squad for the world cup

Maybe because this is Yasuhito Endo, and the player you're talking about here is Wataru Endo, who was playing in the Japanese second division at the time of the 2014 world cup.

Don't blame you he disgraced himself

But Maradona is a god

@@Haarwyvern no he isn’t he would of just been same quality as Dan James without the coke

All that good work come undone by a cheating bastard