History Literature / DaysOfInfamy

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Only for the Japanese side, however.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Only on the Japanese side, however, with Minoru Genda, Isoroku Yamamoto and Tomoyuki Yamashita.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Only for the Japanese side, however.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Both America and Japan underestimated each other prior to the invasion. In the first book, the Japanese believed that the Americans were lazy and incompetent as emphasized in the Americans' first failed retaking of Hawaii. But by the second book, Japan got the receiving end when America got its wits together and upgraded its military to finally retaking Hawaii.
* VillainousBreakdown: Stanley Owana Laanui starts drinking after learning that the Imperial Japanese Navy was wiped out by the Americans and grows worse for wear when he realizes the inevitable fact that Hawaii will fall back into their hands.

* StrangerInAFamiliarLand: Ironically, this is Jiro's fate. Despite being proud of his country, he had spent so many years living in Hawaii that once he flees to Japan he felt so alienated and even uncomfortable from meeting his extended family that he rarely talk to.

* VillainousBreakdown: Stanley Lanni starts drinking after learning that the Imperial Japanese Navy was wiped out by the Americans and grows worse for wear when he realizes the inevitable fact that Hawaii will fall back into their hands.

* InItsHourOfNeed: King Stanley and Queen Laanui chose to remain in Hawaii rather than take a submarine to Japan.

* PuppetKing: Stanley Owana Lanni was made "King of Hawaii" by the Japanese after the Pearl Harbor attack and invasion. Ironically, Stanley was the Japanese government's ''last'' choice for office, as many native Hawaiians with royal blood, such as Abigail Kawananakoa, knew very well that the real power remains in Japanese hands and flatly declined the Japanese's offer.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Only the historical viewpoint characters are the Japanese.
* HistoricalVillainDowngrade: As bad as the Japanese soldiers are portrayed in this story, the reality was even worse. For instance, various characters often comment on how little food there is in Hawaii, even for the soldiers. However, this ignores the fact that there was plenty of meat on the island in the form of the civilian population. Yes, according to TheOtherWiki, the Imperial Japanese armed forces did engage in cannibalism among their other war crimes. See [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes#Cannibalism here]]for details.

* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: Jim Peterson, severely malnourished, says this to Charlie Opana, who want to escape together from the Japanese POW camp when the second battle for Hawaii is falling in favor for the Americans. Although Charlie promised in looking for help, but was unfortunately too late.

** Arisaka Rifles are noted of being BoringButPractical.

* RightUnderTheirNoses: The hidden American airfield that was built on Kauai, which the Japanese never bothered to occupy. It becomes a strategic landing site for American bombers during the liberation.

* RightUnderTheirNoses: The hidden American airfield that was built on Kauai, which the Japanese didn't bothered to occupy, and becoming a strategic landing site for American bombers during the liberation.

* InItsHourOfNeed: Queen Laanui and King Stanley chose to remain in Hawaii rather than take a submarine to Japan.

* LeaveBehindAPistol: [[spoiler: Once the U.S. retook Hawaii, Stanley Owana Lanni shot his wife before turning his gun on himself.]]

** The F6F Grumman Hellcat proves invaluable in replacing the F4F Wildcat.
** The Aichi D3A dive bomber was decisive in winning the battle during the first US attempt to retake Hawaii.
** The ''Zero'' is the most affective Japanese fighter up until 1943.

* Seppuku: Minoru Genda commits seppuku after the United States reconquered Hawaii. In this case, Yasuo Furusawa acted as Genda's second by shooting him in the head just as Genda disemboweled himself.

* ImperialJapan

''Days of Infamy'' is a two-novel AlternateHistory of the initial stages of the Pacific War by Creator/HarryTurtledove. The premise of the story that Empire of Japan not only attacks Pearl Harbor, but follows it up with the landing and occupation of Hawaii.

** By the end of the American liberation, many surviving Japanese POW's were very surprised of how they were being properly treated by their captors than how they treated their prisoners.

* InterserviceRivalry: The Imperial Japanese Army and Navy hardly tolerate each other and had been traditionally, which only intensified during their occupation of Hawaii.

* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: Given to the fact that Japan didn't sign the [[TheLawsAndCustomsOfWar Geneva Convention]], the Imperial Japanese Army fills out their criteria throughout the series (many of which are unfortunately TruthInTelevision):

** A captured American POW was [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured by being repeatedly bayoneted, castrated and his genitals are put in his mouth before expiring from blood loss]], AND, as a sadistic add to insult, having a sign placed next to him with the words: "HE TAKE LONG TIME DIE".

** The Japanese military resorted to forcing women civilians in Hawaii to becoming [[SexSlave comfort women]] as there were too many Japanese servicemen crowding Hotel Street's brothels. Jane Armitage was among the comfort women. In real life, it was a very unfortunate TruthInTelevision.
* OffWithHisHead: Murphy, an elementary school principal, was decapitated by the Japs under charges of treason.

* PuppetKing: Stanley Owana Lanni was made "King of Hawaii" by the Japanese after the Pearl Harbor attack and invasion. Ironically, Stanley was the Japanese government's ''last'' choice for office, as many native Hawaiians with royal blood, such as Abigail Kawananakoa, ''knew'' better that the real power remains in Japanese hands and flatly declined the Japanese's offer.

* SlidingScaleOfAlternateHistoryPlausibility: From a realistic perspective, it's considered logistically impossible for Japan invading Hawaii. Specifically noted by the occupying Japanese forces, who have to convert the Hawaiian pineapple plantations into farms to feed themselves. Even then, they end up having to remove most of their occupying force after repulsing the initial American counterattack.

** The M3 Stuart fair well against Japanese tanks during the invasion.

* VillainousBreakdown: Stanley Lanni starts drinking after learning that the Imperial Japanese Navy was wiped out by the Americans and going worse for wear when he realized the inevitable fact that Hawaii will fall back to the Americans.

''Days of Infamy'' is a two-novel AlternateHistory of the initial stages of the Pacific War by HarryTurtledove. The premise of the story that Empire of Japan not only attacks Pearl Harbor, but follows it up with the landing and occupation of Hawaii.

* KatanasOfTheRisingSun

* UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar: Many Japanese soldiers and sailors that invaded Hawaii are veterans that fought in mainland China. It is noted by some Japanese characters that they found occupation duty on the islands are far less dangerous and dull in comparison to their previous duties in China.

* WorldWarII: While only giving focus to the Pacific Theater, passing mentions are given to the Russian Eastern front and the European theater.
* YanksWithTanks

* HistoricalVillainDowngrade: As bad as the Japanese soldiers are portrayed in this story, the reality was even worse. For instance, they often comment on how little food there is in Hawaii, even for the soldiers. However, this ignores the fact that there was plenty of meat on the island in the form of the civilian population. Yes, according to TheOtherWiki, the Imperial Japanese armed forces did engage in cannibalism among their other war crimes. See [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes#Cannibalism here]]for details.

* HistoricalVillainDowngrade: As bad as the Japanese soldiers are portrayed in this story, the reality was even worse. For instance, they often comment on how little food there is in Hawaii, even for the soldiers. However, this ignores the fact that there was plenty of meat on the island in the form of the civilian population. Yes, according to TheOtherWiki, the Imperial Japanese armed forces did engage in cannibalism among their other war crimes. See [[here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes#Cannibalism]] for details.

* MightyGlacier: Lt. Saburo Shindo find B-25 Mitchells frustratingly difficult to shoot down due to their heavy armor and powerful guns.

* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant

* CoolPlane: American and Japanese planes.

* DeathFromAbove

* ForWantOfANail: The Japanese gave their approval of conquering Hawaii after being convinced by Minoru Genda.

* HilariousInHindsight:
** Saburo Shindo's SuicideAttack on the deck of the USS ''Bunker Hill'' (which survive, but not unscathed). Airman Joe Crosetti was on the carrier and tried to rationalize that no one in their right mind would resort to fly their plane into a ship.
** After fleeing to Japan, Jiro Takahasi is relocated to Hiroshima, where he continue to spend his life making propaganda broadcasts in what he sees to be a relatively quiet and peaceful city.

* {{LesCollaborateurs}}/{{TheQuisling}}:

* NamesTheSame: ''Days of Infamy'' share the same title of the book with the same premise in Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen's ''Pacific War'' series.
* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: Given to the fact that Japan didn't sign the [[TheLawsAndCustomsOfWar Geneva Convention]], the Imperial Japanese Army fills out their criteria throughout the series (many of which are unfortunately TruthInTelevision).

* PuppetKing: Stanley Owana Lanni was made "King of Hawaii" by the Japanese after the Pearl Harbor attack and invasion. Ironically, Stanley was the Japanese government's ''last'' choice for office, as many native Hawaiians with royal blood, such as Abigail Kawananakoa, ''knew'' better that the real power remains in Japanese hands and flatly declined the Japaneses's offer.

* SlidingScaleOfAlternateHistoryPlausibility: From a realistic perspective, it's considered logistically impossible for Japan invading Hawaii.
** Specifically noted by the occupying Japanese forces, who have to convert the Hawaiian pineapple plantations into farms to feed themselves. Even then, they end up having to remove most of their occupying force after repulsing the initial American counterattack.

* UnfortunateImplications: With Hawaii liberated by American forces, ethnic Japanese civilians are rounded up and are implied to be relocated in internment camps, and more likely to be no major ''Nisei'' combat forces in the U.S. military; all the more souring civil rights in America.
** The flag of Hawaii is now remember as a symbol for its puppet state under the Japanese, and wouldn't ever be raise again.
** On a less negative side, the Dole Food Company's fruit plantations suffered significant losses from the occupation to the liberation that it was expected that it couldn't recover its losses. It can be justified as a karmic backlash for Dole's role for being historically responsible for the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy and the subsequent annexation of Hawaii to the U.S.

* WorldWarII
* YanksWithTanks / TankGoodness: The M3 Stuart fair well against Japanese tanks during the invasion. By ''End of the Beginning'', the M4 Sherman dominated armored warfare and their only casualties are the result of suicide petrol bombs and grenade attacks.

* {{SecondSino-JapaneseWar}}: Many Japanese soldiers and sailors that invaded Hawaii are veterans that fought in mainland China. It is noted by some Japanese characters that they found occupation duty on the islands are far less dangerous and dull in comparison to their previous duties in China.

* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: Given to the fact that Japan didn't sign the [[TheLawsAndCustomsOfWar Geneva Convention]], the Imperial Japanese Army fills out their criteria throughout the series (many of which are based on TruthInTelevision).

* SlidingScaleOfAlternateHistoryPlausibility: From realistic perspective, it's considered logistically impossible for Japan invading Hawaii.
* SuicideAttack: Saburo Shindo's death in making what's apparently the first kamikaze attack on the USS ''Bunker Hill''.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: Both America and Japan underestimated each other. In the first book, the Japanese believed that the Americans were lazy and incompetent as emphasized in the Americans' first failed retaking of Hawaii. But by the second book, Japan got the receiving end when America got its wits together and upgraded its military to finally retaking Hawaii.

* PuppetKing: Stanley Owana Lanni was made "King of Hawaii" by the Japanese after the Pearl Harbor attack and invasion. Ironically, Stanley was the Japanese government's ''last'' choice for office, as many native Hawaiians with loyal blood, such as Abigail Kawananakoa, ''knew'' better that the real power remains in Japanese hands and flatly declined the Japaneses's offer.

* DrillSergeantNasty: Sanji Iwabuchi. Even made worse that Iwabuchi became the leader of all Japanese forces in Hawaii after Tomoyuki Yamashita was killed and heedlessly ordering troops to [[ZergRush charge at the enemy]], regardless of the number of Japanese soldiers that are killed and any civilians caught in the crossfire. Some Japanese leaders, Minoru Genda among them, are disturbed by his tactics. Although, it is much as a surprise and shock for American military intelligence, as Iwabuchi's mentality was ''hardly'' unique among the Japanese military.

* MonumentalDamage: In ''Days of Infamy'', the Aloha Tower is bombed by the Japanese dive bombers to break American morale.

* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: Given to the fact that Japan didn't sign the Geneva Convention, the Imperial Japanese Army fills out their criteria throughout the series (many of which are based on TruthInTelevision).

** A public execution of an American civilian for illegally keeping a radio via decapitation.
** A captured American POW was tortured by being repeatedly bayoneted, castrated and his genitals are put in his mouth before expiring from blood loss, AND then having a sign placed next to him with the words: "HE TAKE LONG TIME DIE".

* SuicideAttack: The final resort for the remaining Japanese Imperial forces during the liberation.
** Saburo Shindo's death in making what's apparently the first kamikaze attack on the USS ''Bunker Hill''.

* YanksWithTanks/TankGoodness: The M3 Stuart fair well against Japanese tanks during the invasion. By ''End of the Beginning'', the M4 Sherman dominated armored warfare and their only casualties are the result of suicide petrol bombs and grenade attacks.

* ForWantOfANail: Minoru Genda saw that attacking Pearl Harbor was inefficient and successful in convincing the Japanese government in conquering Hawaii.

** In ''End of the Beginning'', the Iolani Palace and the Honolulu Hale were made as the Japanese's last line of defense against US Marines, and were necessary destroyed by the Americans to crush the Japanese that are fighting to the last man.

** A captured American POW was tortured by being repeatedly bayoneted, castrated and his genitals are put in his mouth before expiring from blood loss, and then having a sign placed next to him with the words: "HE TAKE LONG TIME DIE".

* The Japanese military resorted to forcing women civilians in Hawaii to becoming [[SexSlave comfort women]] as there were too many Japanese servicemen crowding Hotel Street's brothels. Jane Armitage was among the comfort women. In real life, it was a very unfortunate TruthInTelevision.

* VillainousBreakdown: Stanley Lanni starts drinking and going worse for wear when he realized the inevitable fact that Hawaii will fall back to the Americans.

* YanksWithTanks: The M3 Stuart fair well against Japanese tanks during the invasion. By ''End of the Beginning'', the M4 Sherman dominated armored warfare and their casualties are the result of suicide petrol bombs and grenade attacks.

''Days of Infamy'' is a two-novel AlternateHistory of the initial stages of the Pacific War by Harry Turtledove. The premise of the story that Empire of Japan not only attacks Pearl Harbor, but follows it up with the landing and occupation of Hawaii.

* ColonelBadass: Platoon Sergeant Lester Dillon of the USMC.

* DrillSergeantNasty: Sanji Iwabuchi. Even made worse that Iwabuchi became the leader of all Japanese forces after Tomoyuki Yamashita was killed and heedlessly ordering troops to charge at the enemy, regardless of the Japanese soldiers and any civilians caught in the crossfire. Some Japanese leaders, Minoru Genda among them, are disturbed by his tactics. Although, it is much as a surprise and shock for American military intelligence, as Iwabuchi's mentality was ''hardly'' unique among the Japanese military.

* SexSlave: The Japanese military resorted to forcing women civilians in Hawaii to becoming comfort women as there were too many Japanese servicemen crowding Hotel Street's brothels. Jane Armitage was among those that unfortunately fell victim as comfort women. In real life, it was a very unfortunate TruthInTelevision.
* ShootTheMedicFirst: During the invasion, American medics are targeted by the Japanese (which is TruthInTelevision).
* SuicideAttack: Saburo Shindo's death in making what's apparently the first kamikaze attack on the USS ''Bunker Hill''.
* UnfortunateImplications: With Hawaii liberated by American forces, ethnic Japanese civilians are rounded up and are implied to be relocated in internment camps, and more likely to be no major ''Nisei'' combat forces in the U.S. military; all the more souring civil rights in America.