The attack on Pearl Harbor
The ending of Kim’s another novella Burn after Reading (1962) that draws the code war between Japan and the U.S. also betrays the expectation of puzzler readers. There are two mysteries in this work. Captain of the 3rd Section (Intelligence Bureau) of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff IDE who had engaged in espionage in Hawaii after the attack on Pearl Harbor was caught and questioned by the U.S. military. At the interrogations a ciphertext on which “five-digit numbers and three letters QQQ were written” was found. The U.S. military thought it as “a very important document” and tried to find out the meaning by questioning, but IDE, without answering, took the opportunity to throw himself from the window.
The code also relates to the second mystery. At the beginning of the story, IDE and captain TERANO of Imperial Japanese Navy received the special mission to carry a new code machine (System 97 Printing Machine for …show more content…
The phrase will be repeated twice.
The above cited sentence means that Japan will inform its Foreign Offices about the country they are going to declare the war. Having discovered this, the U.S. cryptocenter began to direct its special concern to the weather forecast of Japan and finally discovered the following sentence on December 4.
In Tokyo today winds will gradually get intense, cloudy weather will be possible. In Kanagawa Prefecture today northerly winds, cloudy. In Chiba Prefecture northerly winds, fine weather, might be cloudy, waves are
The ending of Kim’s another novella Burn after Reading (1962) that draws the code war between Japan and the U.S. also betrays the expectation of puzzler readers. There are two mysteries in this work. Captain of the 3rd Section (Intelligence Bureau) of the Imperial Japanese Navy General Staff IDE who had engaged in espionage in Hawaii after the attack on Pearl Harbor was caught and questioned by the U.S. military. At the interrogations a ciphertext on which “five-digit numbers and three letters QQQ were written” was found. The U.S. military thought it as “a very important document” and tried to find out the meaning by questioning, but IDE, without answering, took the opportunity to throw himself from the window.
The code also relates to the second mystery. At the beginning of the story, IDE and captain TERANO of Imperial Japanese Navy received the special mission to carry a new code machine (System 97 Printing Machine for …show more content…
The phrase will be repeated twice.
The above cited sentence means that Japan will inform its Foreign Offices about the country they are going to declare the war. Having discovered this, the U.S. cryptocenter began to direct its special concern to the weather forecast of Japan and finally discovered the following sentence on December 4.
In Tokyo today winds will gradually get intense, cloudy weather will be possible. In Kanagawa Prefecture today northerly winds, cloudy. In Chiba Prefecture northerly winds, fine weather, might be cloudy, waves are