Kazuo Sakamaki joined the nine other sailors who manned those submarines on a monument erected in Ikata, Ehime Prefecture, on Dec. 8, the 80th anniversary of the attack Japan time. The monument ...

Yet, no mention was made of the one remaining crew member. That was Kazuo Sakamaki (1918-1999), who survived and became the first Japanese prisoner of war in U.S. captivity during World War II.