Description
Book Synopsis Takeo Yoshikawa (1912-1993) was an ensign in the Imperial Japanese Navy and a naval intelligence officer assigned the task of spying on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor.
Assuming the alias Morimura and the role of secretary at the Japanese Consulate-General in Honolulu in March of 1941, Yoshikawa was able to travel all over the Hawaiian Islands to gather intelligence. His reporting during the nine months preceding the outbreak of the Pacific War would help pave the way for Japan''s surprise attack at Pearl Harbor.
Yoshikawa''s memoirs--published here in English for the first time--offer a gripping spy story, personal confessions, and a Japanese eyewitness view of the war in the Pacific.
Table of ContentsTranslator's Foreword
Preface to the Japanese Edition (1963)
Part One: A Letter
1. Ancient Light Hermitage
2. A Letter from a U.S. Soldier
3. Memories of Childhood and Growing Up
4. Navy Life
5. Returning Home to Convalesce
Part Two: Storm Clouds Over the Pacific
6. The Navy General Staff
7. Springtide
8. The Situation in America
9. Getting Ready
10. Aboard the Nitta Maru
11. Taking Up a New Post
12. An Overview of Hawaii
13. Getting Down to Work
14. Touring the Islands
15. Sending Telegrams
16. The Decision to Make War
17. The Hawaiian Climate
18. A Coral Sea
19. Airfields and Army Bases
20. The Secret Envoy
21. Activity in November
22. Cash for an Undercover Agent
Part Three: The Fateful
23. Activities in December
24. The Final Telegram
25. Pearl Harbor's Last Day
26. Life Under House Arrest
27. A Special Submarine
28. Remember Pearl Harbor
29. Triangle T Ranch
30. Carving
31. Rancher Tobacco
32. Leaving the Ranch
33. At a Crossroads
34. Navigating the Seas
Part Four: Returning
35. The Welcome
36. Longing for the Past
37. Interrogating Prisoners of War
38. Cipher Code and the Death of Commander Isoroku Yamamoto During Combat
39. Japanese Secret Code Before the War
40. Walking Away
41. On the Run
42. The Family Village
43. Green Vegetable Juice
44. War History
45. CBS
46. Filming
47. Strolling Around Honolulu
48. Returning to the Mountain
Chapter Notes
Index
