CLEVELAND, Ohio - Seventy-five years after the Japanese sneak attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor that hauled the United States into World War II, most of the stories are very well told.

Kazuo Sakamaki with his son at the Toyota plant where he worked, in Tokyo, November 21, 1956. AP Photo/GK The body of Sakamaki's drowned crew mate was discovered the day after he was captured.

It was here in 1941, they told me, that Kazuo Sakamaki became the first Japanese prisoner of war captured by U.S. forces in World War II. Sakamaki, an ensign in the Japanese Imperial Navy, ...

Kazuo Sakamaki, who became America’s first Japanese prisoner of war in World War II after his midget submarine ran aground during the attack on Pearl Harbor, died on Nov. 29. He was 81. His ...

Until the end of World War II, Japan celebrated its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, as a glorious victory. But the patriotic legend also created a victim: Kazuo Sakamaki, a ...

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. ...

Kiyoshi Sakamaki, eldest son of Kazuo Sakamaki, Japan's first prisoner of war during World War II, is seen talking about his father's collection of notes in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, on Nov. 10, 2021.

Kazuo Sakamaki was supposed to fight to the death, and his brother recalls the stigma the family felt when it turned out the U.S. had captured the Imperial Navy ensign. Skip to Main Content.

One of the most peculiar naval vessels employed in the battle of Pearl Harbor is the Japanese midget submarine. One such vessel, manned by Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki, failed in its mission to attack ...

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Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki tried, but failed, to scuttle the sub by lighting a self-destruct fuse. Instead he and his crewmate, Kiyoshi Inagaki, dived into the water to make for shore.