Word: morimura
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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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...
Nagumo before mounting the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Vice Consul Morimura had done his job well...
Swimming Spy. The vice consul was not a diplomat, and his name was not really Morimura. He was Takeo Yoshikawa, former ensign in the Japanese Imperial Navy, who had been sent to Honolulu in April 1941 on espionage duty. Now, 19 years after Pearl Harbor, writing in the authoritative United States Naval Institute Proceedings, Yoshikawa details his role as Japan's eyes and ears in the days before Pearl Harbor...