Japan's Spy at Pearl Harbor

Memoir of an Imperial Navy Secret Agent

Takeo Yoshikawa (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

308 Seiten

2020
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7699-9 (ISBN)

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Takeo Yoshikawa (1912–1993) was an ensign in the Imperial Japanese Navy and a naval intelligence officer assigned the task of spying on the US Pacific Fleet 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.

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.

Takeo Yoshikawa was born in Matsuyama, Japan, in 1912 and was trained at the prestigious Etajima Naval Academy in the early 1930s. Andrew Mitchell lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Table of Contents

Translator’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
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Erscheinungsdatum	02.12.2019
Übersetzer	Andrew Mitchell
Zusatzinfo	12 photos, notes, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-4766-7699-2 / 1476676992
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-7699-9 / 9781476676999
Zustand	Neuware