After noting the Chinese and Russians are excellent allies and have engaged in several military drills together of late, Japanese State Defense Minister Yasuhide Nakayama, in a press interview, had this to say, "[Russian naval forces] are really exercising just right in front of the western part of Honolulu, and so I don't want to remind the [sic] seventy years ago, but we have to be careful of the exercising of the Russians." 

Nakayama made this statement because many Russian ships are operating just 35 miles off of Hawaii's coast. They conducted several drills, one of which has been a rehearsal on sinking an aircraft carrier. And what could Nakayama possibly be alluding to that happened in Hawaii roughly seventy years ago?