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	Kazuo Sakamaki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kazuo Sakamaki (酒巻和男 Sakamaki Kazuo, November 8, 1918 - November 29, 1999) was a Japanese naval officer.
		He was one of ten sailors (5 officers and 5 petty officers) volunteered to attack Pearl Harbor in a Ko-hyoteki class midget submarine.
		In 1991, Sakamaki attended a historical conference in Texas and was reunited with his submarine for the first time in 50 years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kazuo_Sakamaki (161 words)

	Midget submarine and the attack on Pearl Harbor.
		Kazuo Sakamaki was ready to die for his country in 1941; but when he was interviewed in 1948, his opinion of war had changed greatly.
		But seven years ago, Sakamaki was one of five officers who set forth in five midget submarines ready, indeed eager, to die for the glory of his country in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
		Sakamaki trained long and hard for what he sincerely believed was his date with destiny.
	www.texasescapes.com /DEPARTMENTS/Guest_Columnists/Times_past/PearlHarbourMidgetSub.htm (851 words)

	iB::Topic::Midget C - The I-24 Midget
		Kazuo Sakamaki and his crewman launched their midget submarine - the HA-19 - from the fleet submarine I-24 shortly after 0330 on the morning of December 7, 1941.
		Sakamaki would set the rudders to keep the boat on a certain course, but the rudders were either misaligned to begin with, or there was an air leak inside the boat that allowed the rudders to "drift".
		Sakamaki mentioned air leaks in his book a number of times, and said the air pressure was rising in the boat.
	www.pearlharborattacked.com /cgi-bin/ikonboard312a/ikonboard.cgi?s=d21f3285ff0e8d38f2fef46eac0bccbe;act=ST;f=58;t=1048 (1862 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin News
		Kazuo Sakamaki met in 1991 with other veterans of the Pearl Harbor attack at a historic conference in Texas.
		As an ensign in the Japanese imperial navy, Sakamaki and crewman Kyoshi Inagaki were aboard a tiny "midget" submarine that was pummeled by American depth charges and cannon shells at the entrance to Pearl Harbor on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941.
		Sakamaki and Inagaki were overcome by battery fumes and spent the remainder of Dec. 7 unconscious and drifting.
	starbulletin.com /2002/05/11/news/whatever.html (465 words)

	Kazuo Sakamaki
		Kazuo Sakamaki (died November 29, 1999) was a Japanese sailor.
		He was one of ten sailors picked to attack Pearl Harbor in midget submarines.
		Of the ten, the other nine were killed (including the other crewman in his sub, Kiyoshi Inagake) and Sakamaki was captured by the Americans, becoming the first prisoner held by the Americans in World War II.
	www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/k/ka/kazuo_sakamaki.html (81 words)

	Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki of HA-19 midget submarine
		Sakamaki lit a fuse to destroy his boat, so that it could not be captured, but the charge didn't work.
		Sakamaki washed onto the beach where he was captured, thus becoming the first Japanese prisoner of war.
		Sakamaki's determination and heroism was never recognized by his native land.
	www.submarinesonstamps.co.il /openhist.php?ID=211 (374 words)

	Kazuo Sakamaki Article, KazuoSakamaki Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He was one often sailors picked to attack Pearl Harbor in a Ko-hyoteki class midget submarine.
		Of the ten, the other nine were killed (including the other crewman in his sub, Kiyoshi Inagake)and Sakamaki was captured by the Americans, becoming the first prisoner held by the Americans in World War II.
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	Kurotokage writeup part 2
		Kazuo had him rendered mentally incapable and condemned him to a pampered hell, consigned to a steady diet of drugs that keep the old man from falling into the deep sleep where he could contact Amaterasu and reveal the betrayal of his only son.
		In the prison of Kazuo's home, the father has every comfort available except peace, condemned to this fate because, though he believes that he has betrayed every other value he was raised to believe, he will not betray that final value and commit patricide.
		Kazuo sits quietly, as though in penance, as he listens to the old man moan softly, asking why his son will not love her, why does he spurn her love...
	www.kurotokage.org /Kurotokage/Kurotokage2.html (3353 words)

	Amazon.de: The Anguish of Surrender: Japanese POWs of World War II (Adst-Dacor Diplomats and Diplomacy Book): English ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		On December 6, 1941, Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki was one of a handful of men selected to skipper midget subs on a suicide mission to breach Pearl Harbor's defenses.
		Sakamaki and his fellow soldiers and sailors had been indoctrinated to choose between victory and a heroic death.
		By avoiding glorious death and becoming a prisoner of war, Sakamaki believed he had brought shame and dishonor on himself, his family, his community, and his nation, in effect relinquishing his citizenship.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0295985089 (923 words)

	Japanese Midget Submarine HA-19 WWII
		Kazuo Sakamaki, pilot and commanding officer, HA-19's story is a significant aspect of the "day of infamy' at Pearl Harbor and its immediate aftermath.
		Kazuo Sakamaki and Chief Warrant Officer Kiyoshi Inagaki, HA-19 slipped off the deck of I-24 some 10-1/2 miles off Pearl Harbor and headed for the lights of Honolulu.
		Calling to Inagaki, Sakamaki realized with despair that the charges had not exploded and his vessel was to fall into enemy hands.
	www.diodon349.com /War/japanese_midget_submarine_ha_19.htm (4334 words)

	Remember Pearl Harbor : Japanese And American Survivors Tell Their Stories (Remember) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Also mentioned in the book is Kazuo Sakamaki, a crew member of one of the midget submarines that tried to enter Pearl Harbor.
		After spending many hours trying to enter the harbor, Sakamaki and his other crew member were forced to abandon their submarine.
		The crewman died, but Sakamaki made it to shore where he was captured by an American soldier.
	www.semi-precious-gem-stone.com /prod/0792266900/Remember_Pearl_Harbor_:_Japanese_And_American_Survivors_Tell_Their_Stories_(Remember).html (312 words)

	World War II Plus 55 - June 10-13th, 1942
		Kazuo Sakamaki, sole survivor of the midget sub attack on Pearl Harbor, is the sole Japanese PoW.
		Sakamaki hears the Japanese version of the battle, but believes what he reads in American newspapers.
		On his long journey to Tennessee, Sakamaki has seen countless factories, endless fields of grain, and massive cities, revealing the full power of the American economy, and knows that Japan is in for a long, bloody, and futile, war.
	www.usswashington.com /dl10ju42.htm (2590 words)

	[Kazuo Sakamaki] \| [All the best Kazuo Sakamaki resources at ipod.topicsware.com] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Pearl Harbor: l’attaccoDei dieci marinai che complessivamente erano impiegati a bordo dei midget submarines, nessuno riuscì a fare ritorno alla base: uno di questi, Kazuo Sakamaki, venne catturato diventando così il primo prigioniero di guerra detenuto dagli...
		Details of the AttackOf the ten sailors aboard the five submarines, nine died, and the only survivor, Kazuo Sakamaki, was captured, becoming the first prisoner of war captured by the Americans in World War II.
		PeperanganDaripada sepuluh kelasi kapal selam tersebut, sembilan mati dan hanya seorang selamat, Kazuo Sakamaki, yang ditangkap; dia merupakan tahanan perang pertama ditangkap oleh pihak Amerika dalam Perang Dunia II.
	ipod.topicsware.com /Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor/Kazuo_Sakamaki (346 words)

	FIRST JAPANESE PRISONER OF WAR...PEARL HARBOR
		Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki was the only survivor of the ten-man midget submarine force that attempted to sneak into Pearl harbor and destroy US ships with their torpedoes.
		Sakamaki's next plan was to ram the Pennsylvania and climb aboard to engage the enemy in hand to hand combat.
		Sakamaki's sub was shipped to the US mainland for intensive study by naval intelligence and later served as a draw for war bond sales rallies.
	www.ussslcca25.com /prisoner.htm (429 words)

	Through the Looking Glass Book Review
		Somewhere off the coast of Oahu Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki lay on his bunk awaiting the operation he had been training for all his life it seemed.
		Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki had a much harder time of it because his submarine began to malfunction just outside Pearl Harbor.
		The book ends with an epilogue which tells us what happened to each of the four characters whom we read about in the book, and with a description of the memorial that was created at Pearl Harbor to remember what occurred on December 7th, 1941 and all who died on that most unforgettable of days.
	www.lookingglassreview.com /A_Day_that_Changed_Pearl_Harbor.html (583 words)

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		The submarine and her pilot, Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki, were captured on 8 December.
		Here, her commanding officer, IJN Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki, surrenders to become the first Japanese combatant to be captured by the United States after its entry into World War II.
		Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki, skipper of the I-24 became a successful corporate executive for Toyoto for many years after the war, died on 29 November 1999.
	www.indianamilitary.org /NEWSLETTER/2003/Dec2003 (5764 words)

	Japanese Submarines
		Sakamaki and Inagaki shift ballast and free the midget submarine, but it will not answer the helm.
		Sakamaki tries to beach her, but runs aground again.
		That same day, Ensign Sakamaki is taken prisoner - the first POW taken by the United States in the Second World War.
	www.combinedfleet.com /Pearl.htm (2668 words)

	An MIS Story from Pentagon
		I was one of the 100th Battalion personnel recruited in Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, for Camp Savage MISLS as noted in the "Senpai Gumi," made famous by Dick Oguro's book of the same title which relates my MIS story (pages 106-113).
		While at the Pentagon, I accompanied an intelligence officer to the Camp McCoy POW compound to serve as interpreter in the interrogation of Japanese Navy Lt.
		Kazuo Sakamaki, the midget submarine commander captured at Waimanalo in December 1941 - Another elderly Japanese Navy commander was questioned at the same time but Sakamaki, being very fluent in English, answered for both in English; so, there was no need for me as interpreter.
	www.javadc.org /kazuo%20yamane.htm (751 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - First Shot
		Even in the Pearl Harbor attack the two-man crews knew they had little chance of survival; as Japan's early successes were replaced by stalemate, then losses, and finally a desperate endgame, the crews acceptedeven welcomed -- that their missions were suicidal.
		Kazuo Sakamaki, the only survivor among the midget sub crews in the Pearl Harbor attack, was also America's first Japanese POW.
		To be captured was to dishonor his family and his motherland, and Sakamaki repeatedly attempted suicide after being shipped to a prison camp in Wisconsin.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=55139373&srchTerms=0071437169&mediaType=-1&srchType=ISBN (544 words)

	KAZUO SAKAMAKI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Er war einer von 10 Seeleuten, die ausgewählt wurden, um Pearl Harbor in einem Ko-hyoteki Kategorie Zwergunterseeboot in Angriff zu nehmen.
		In von den 10 anderen neun getötet und Sakamaki wurde von den Amerikanern gefangengenommen und stand dem ersten Gefangenen, das von den Amerikanern im Zweiten Weltkrieg gehalten wurde.
		It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license.
	www.faktedon.com /wiki/de/ka/Kazuo%20Sakamaki.htm (68 words)

	ZipUSA: Waimanalo, Hawaii @ nationalgeographic.com
		Kazuo Sakamaki and crewed by Chief Warrant Officer Kiyoshi Inagaki, was the last of the five subs to be launched.
		The men attempted to escape, but Inagaki drowned and Sakamaki, America’s first prisoner of war, was sent to a POW camp.
		Sakamaki, who went on to be a successful businessman after the war, died in November 1999 at the age of 81.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /ngm/0102/feature8/index.html (607 words)

	Patentee Index
		Sakamaki, Kazuo; Sakamaki, Akira; Sato, Chokichi; and Taniguchi, Tadashi 06959931 Cl. 279-62.
		Sakamaki, Kazuo; Sakamaki, Akira; Sato, Chokichi; and Taniguchi, Tadashi, to Yukiwa Seiko Inc. Keyless chuck and associated method 06959931 Cl. 279-62.
		Nishimura, Kazuo; Ban, Masakazu; Fujimura, Ken-ichi; Kobayashi, Naoyuki; Hori, Masanori; Honda, Takahiro; and Matsumoto, Junzo 06960575 Cl. 514-211.15.
	www.uspto.gov /web/patents/patog/week44/OG/patentee/alphaS_Utility.htm (9219 words)

	Arizona Memorial Museum Association - Locations
		He was first assigned to the 811th Military Police Company at Sand Island and assisted in establishing the first prisoner of war camp on American soil since the U.S. Civil War.
		Tom had an opportunity to guard Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki, the captured midget submarine commander and the first Japanese prisoner-of-war for the United States.
		Later in the war, Tom saw combat in three campaigns in Italy, serving as a Sergeant in the 349th Infantry of the 88th "Blue Devil" Division.
	www.arizonamemorial.org /locations/arizona-memorial-thomas-unger.html (318 words)

	The Capture of Ensign Sakamaki: a 1/350 diorama
		Readying his vessel on 6 December, Sakamaki noted problems with the gyrocompass, sticking valves, a minor oil leak and air bubbling out from the rudder connection.
		Sakamaki and Inagaki exhausted themselves working the boat off the reef, then the men passed out in the toxic atmosphere as the disabled vessel drifted out to sea.
		Sakamaki, however, was alive when he beat his comrade to the same beach on the 7th.
	www.paolopizzi.com /paolopizzi/reviews/midget/ijnmidget.htm (2797 words)

	Abandon Ship!, Richard F Newcomb - HarperAcademic
		Sublieutenant Kazuo Sakamaki went through his final ritual, for he was to ride one of the midget submarines with Seaman First Class Kyoji Inagaki as his crewman.
		The ritual over, including a visit to the Shinto shrine on board, they were cast off at 5:30 A.M. In the waters nearby there were twenty-seven other Japanese submarines, several of them, like the 1-24, engaged in launching midgets.
		It was the last the I-24 ever saw of Sakamaki, but not the last of Sakamaki.
	www.harperacademic.com /catalog/excerpt_xml.asp?isbn=0060959215 (1014 words)

	Print Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The fifth, commanded by Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki, was captured.
		They were halfway to Bellows Field when they realized it wasn't going to blow up, so they turned around and started swimming back against the current.
		McDonald said that when Sakamaki returned to Japan in 1946, he was viewed as a failure because he had allowed himself to be captured.
	www.thenoblesvilletimes.com /articles/2006/05/20/travel/travel01.prt (1064 words)

	WWII Forums: Interesting information on war in the Pacific (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Unfortunately for Sakamaki, his submarine had handling and navigation problems from the start of the mission.
		The dazed Sakamaki was captured after he tried unsuccessfully to destroy his boat, becoming the first Japanese prisoner captured by Americans during the war.
		From left above, is the crew of midget submarine I-16tou, Masaji Yokoyama and Sadamu Uyeda; I-18tou, Shigemi Furuno and Shigenori Yokoyama; I-20tou, Akira Hiro-o and Yoshio Katayama; I-22tou, Naoji Iwasa and Naokichi Sasaki; and I-24tou, Kazuo Sakamaki and Kiyoshi Inagaki.
	www.ww2forums.com /cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=000037;p=1 (7661 words)

	Photo Page 14 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Submarine I-24 was commanded by CDR Hiroshi Hanabusa, the midget Ha-19 submarine by Ensign Sakamaki Kazuo with Chief Warrant Officer Inagaki Kiyoshi as crew member.
		The midget subs mission was to slip in the harbor and torpedo as many warships as possible left over from the air attack.
		It washed up on the beach near Waimanalo, Oahu and only Ensign Sakamaki Kazuo survived to be the first Japanese prisoner of war for the United States.
	users4.ev1.net /~kagemusha/photo14.htm (533 words)

	۞ Sakamaki Kazuo - Infos und Erklärungen auf Wissen.wisoToday.de (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		November 1999 in Toyota-shi, Präfektur Aichi) war ein japanischer Marineleutnant, der als Kommandant eines der fünf japanischen 2-Mann-U-Boote beim Angriff auf Pearl Harbor teilnahm.
		Kazuo Ishiguro, Hermann Stiehl Was vom Tage übrigblieb.
		Sarah Peters, Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day.
	wissen.wisotoday.de /Sakamaki_Kazuo (554 words)

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