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* [[History Repeats]]: Several characters note how the leadup to open war contains uncomfortable parallels to World War II. The code phrase used by the Japanese to start offensive operations is the same as that which started the Attack of Pearl Harbor, and several submarines whose namesakes were Pearl Harbor survivors play important parts in the counterattacks.
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: Yamata's plot to ruin the American stock market with junk becomes its own worst enemy when Jack realises, building on an earlier discussion, that because there are no records, the government can just reset the clock by fiating that none of the bad trades actually happened.
* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: Basically what motivates the [[Big Bad]] of the book, Raizo Yamata, from start to finish. Because he wanted to avenge the deaths of his family from [[World War II]], he schemes to trigger a war with America to accomplish this, and tries to justify the whole thing to anyone who doubts him by casting America as the villain and what anyone who works with him as doing as morally justified and to the betterment of the Japanese people as a whole, based on logic even Yamata's own Japanese allies come to realize is ludicrously optimistic once they give it a little thought. {{spoiler|And once the emotional outrage he suckered them into going along with his scheme wears off}}. Koga rather easily and simply proves Yamata is full of it when they finally confront one another most of the way through the book, pointing out all the long-term damage his plans would effect even if he triumphed in the short term, points out the stunning idiocy of trusting the Chinese to go to bat for him if things go south, and that Yamata is so sure he's gonna win he underestimates America, the same country that nuclear bombed Japan before, to which Yamata really has no counter. {{spoiler|[[Laser
* [[It's Personal]]: Yamata's plot is driven by his desire to avenge his family, who [[Better to Die Than Be Killed|chose to commit suicide off the cliffs of Saipan rather than be taken alive by US Marines]] in World War II.
* [[Kaiju Defense Force]]: Given an extremely sympathetic perspective, given their antagonist role. Most are portrayed as patriots of one sort or another, and while only a few are portrayed as having truly malicious intentions in the short and long term, most are merely motivated by their national and personal pride.
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