The story of Operation Ten-Go is revered to some degree in modern Japan as evidenced by appearances of the story in popular Japanese culture which usually portray the event as a brave, selfless, but futile, symbolic effort by the participating Japanese sailors to defend their homeland.
Historien om Operation Ten-Go er æret til en vis grad i moderne Japan, som det fremgår af historiens optrædener i japansk populærkultur, som normalt skildrer begivenheden som en modig, uselvisk, men forgæves, symbolsk indsats fra de deltagende japanske søfolk for at forsvare deres fædreland.