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...order for the Japanese fleet, with a cruising radius of less than 2,000 miles, to steam the more than 4,000 miles from Yokohama to our West Coast, and then back again to Japan, it would have to take a large number of slow, highly vulnerable supply ships for the purpose of refueling and repair. With our Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor this could never be done, since the auxiliary ships would fall easy prey to American guns. The same holds true for an American attack on Japan. It is 3,394 miles from Honolulu to Yokohama...
...boarding party got aboard, found that the crew of 45 was German, that the vessel was the 5,098-ton German motor-ship Odenwald, that she had cleared from Yokohama for German-held Bordeaux via Cape Horn with a cargo of baled raw rubber and U.S.-made tires and tubes. A dollar bill was found in one of the inners; bags of peanuts were also found. No arms were found except revolvers...
...soared over the Pacific last week he may well have remembered Japan's first emissary to the U.S. and Europe. He was Takenouchi, Lord of Shimitsuke, who sailed from Yokohama on the British war ship Odin in January 1862, charged with postponing for five years the opening of Japanese ports to foreign vessels. Takenouchi was successful. Last week world-traveled Saburo Kurusu may have wished that he could regain for Japan the U.S. trade contacts that Takenouchi had postponed. But that was up to Pinch Hitter Kurusu's bosses...
From the foreign consulates and business houses overlooking Yokohama harbor the bulk of the Japanese Fleet was in plain sight last week: the Fleet had suddenly steamed into the harbor and dropped anchor with a rattle and splash. The publicity attending this move looked like a sign that Japan was ready for adventure and did not care who knew...
...Japan still had a sharp eye cocked north, to see if Russia dared weaken her Far Eastern Red Banner Armies to support the armies defending Moscow. Reason for the Fleet's presence in Yokohama harbor was made plain by Navy Spokesman Rear Admiral Minoru Mayeda, who said: "A further crisis might arise in the Sea of Japan itself, should Vladivostok take on an anti-Japanese complexion. You may be sure that the Imperial Navy is prepared to meet any emergency...