Taiyo Maru Chapter Summary

This book takes place at Pearl Harbor. In the beginning it talks about the Japanese boat Taiyo Maru. It goes through describing how rusty and old looking/weatherbeaten the boat is. Then it goes on to talk about the island chain of Hawaii. Mainly the city of Honolulu where Pearl Harbor is located. It talks about how peaceful and quite the place is and how many Japanese people reside their as well as Hawaiians. It also shows how it is a particularly calm place to live and doesn’t ever seem to mention that much going on.
Summary: The book begins by explaining the arrival of the Taiyo Maru, which is a Japanese ship into the Honolulu harbor on the 1st of November 1941.Coincidently, the warm welcome that is normally given to a passenger ship whenever it is docked was not there as evidenced by the calm nature of the
The introduction also depicts of the healthy trade relations that existed between Hawaii and the Japanese. The ship was investigated by the FBI and immigration officers. All the documents belonging to the immigrants were carefully analyzed and examined. On board were four officers of the Imperial Japanese Navy who had camouflage themselves as waiters. Two of the officers were submarine experts while the rest were experts in both the air operations and the surface ship operations. Their motive as identified by the Japanese Navy was to “watch for ships and aircrafts on the northern route of Honolulu”. They reported their observation to the authority concerned. What was happening in Japan was the effort to expand its territory by fighting China. The move to neutralize the Navy Pacific Fleet of the U.S that camped at the Pearl Harbor was planned