The Last Sake

Eduardo Fernandez paints a large-scale bust.

Just before 08:00 on Saturday, 7 December 1941 the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This was intended to prevent the American fleet from intervening in the actions that Japan had planned in Southeast Asia. The unexpected attack shocked American society and made the so-called ‘Sleeping Giant’ immediately enter the war, as Hitler also declared war on the United States four days after the attack on Pearl Harbor.