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• Ghosts of Honolulu

• A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
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• Narrated by: Mark Harmon, Leon Carroll
• Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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Hawaii, War clouds with Japan are gathering and the islands of Hawaii have become battlegrounds of spies, intelligence agents, and military officials - with the island's residents caught between them. Toiling in the shadows are Douglas Wada, the only Japanese American agent in naval intelligence, and Takeo Yoshikawa, a Japanese spy sent to Pearl Harbor to gather information on the U.S. fleet.

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Table of contents :
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Maps
Foreword
Prologue
part one: BORN A SAMURAI
part two: PEARL HARBOR TO GUADALCANAL
part three: THE “TOKYO EXPRESS”
part four: AGAINST THE ODDS
part five: THE LAST SORTIE
appendices
Appendix A: Sinking of PT and Rescue of Survivors
Appendix B: Nomenclature of Japanese Warships
Appendix C: U.S.-Japan Statistics of World War II
Index
About the Author

Citation preview

From the best-selling Japanese edition of Captain Hara’s book, Fred Saito of the Associated Press and Roger Pineau—assistant to Admiral Morison on the U.S. Navy’s official history of World War II—have prepared a book of paramount interest to all who want to know the facts about the great naval battles of the Pacific War. Errors in U.S. accounts of famous sea battles are set right by inside reports of high-level Japanese strategy meetings and Hara’s eyewitness account of six years of war. At times sharply critical of famous Japanese admirals, Hara also gives credit to Japanese and “enemy” officers whose daring and seamanship were proved in the savage battles of the Pacific. Illustrated with eight pages of photographs from official U.S. and Japanese Navy files, and filled with exact maps of naval actions, this is a book for the permanent shelf of works on sea warfare.

JAPANESE DESTROYER CAPTAIN Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway— The Great Naval Battles as Seen Through Japanese Eyes

CAPTAIN TAMEICHI HARA of the Imperial Japanese Navy with Fred Saito and Roger Pineau

Naval Institute Press Annapolis, Maryland

The latest edition of this book has been brought to publication with the generous assistance of Marguerite and Gerry Lenfest.

Naval Institute Press Wood Road Annapolis, MD Teikoku Kaigun No Saigo by Tameichi Hara © by Tameichi Hara All rights reserved. First published in the Japanese language in by Kawade Sho

Synopsis

The Naval Institute Press is pleased to make available for the first time this cloth edition of a now-classic war memoir that was a best seller in both Japan and the United States during the s. Originally published as a paperback in , it has long been treasured by World War II buffs and professional historians for its insights into the Japanese side of the surface war in the Pacific. The book has been credited with correcting errors in U.S. accounts of various battles and with revealing details of high-level Imperial Japanese Navy strategy meetings. The author, Captain Tameichi Hara, was a survivor of more than one hundred sorties against the Allies and was known throughout Japan as the Unsinkable Captain. Called the workhorses of the navy, Japanese destroyers shouldered the heaviest burden of the surface war and took part in scores of intense sea battles, many of which Captain Hara describes here. In the early days of the war victories were common, but by , the lack of proper maintenance of the destroyers and sufficient supplies, along with Allied development of scientific equipment and superior aircraft, took its toll. On April 7, , during the Japanese navy s last sortie, Captain Hara managed to survive the sinking of his own ship only to witness the demise of the famed Japanese battleship Yamato off Okinawa. A hero to his countrymen, Captain Hara exemplified the best in Japanese surface commanders: highly skilled (he wrote the manual on torpedo warfare), hard driving, and aggressive. Moreover, he maintained a code of honor worthy of his samurai grandfather, and, as readers of this book have come to appreciate, he was as free with praise for American courage and resourcefulness as he was critical of himself and his senior commanders. The book s popularity over the past forty-six years testifies to the author s success at w