Word: chuichi
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...office at the Japanese consulate in Honolulu on the night of Dec. 6, 1941, Vice Consul Morimura, 27, glanced at this message, buzzed for his code clerk, ordered the report sent to Tokyo and shortly went off to bed. At 0120 hours the next morning. Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, commander of a Japanese task force, received the relayed message from Tokyo. It was the last word required...
...Their opposite number-Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, who led the Japanese attack, shot himself on Saipan this summer, while the island was being overrun by marines. Nagumo gathered his staff in a hut and they all committed suicide, but not before one of them had set fire to the hut so that their bodies were partially burned...
...Saipan, Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo made his honorable exit. Onetime hero of the Empire, Nagumo commanded the carriers in the Pearl Harbor attack, lived to see his fame dimmed when he lost four of five carriers in the Battle of Midway. After Saipan fell, U.S. soldiers found his corpse. He had, quite obviously, committed harakiri...
...Japanese yen. Since then all figures have been secret, with Comrade Yurenev and Mr. Hirota defying each other with a "final offer" every few months. Last week, with tempers erupting on both sides, a break in negotiations came as the dummy third party, Manchukuo's Vice Foreign Minister Chuichi Ohashi, who is a Japanese, packed his bags and left Tokyo for Hsinking, the capital of Puppet Emperor Kang...