A Japanese named Nagano had an American named Knox feeling jittery last week. Osami Nagano is Chief of Japan’s Naval Staff, and last week his Navy was up to no good in the South Pacific.

To a rendezvous in the Indian Ocean somewhere off Madagascar went Germany’s thin-lipped Vice Admiral Karl Doenitz and Japan’s pudgy Admiral Osami Nagano. What the honorable Doenitz said to the ...

It was established by a group of prominent Japanese men, including Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, naval officer Osami Nagano, philosopher Kitaro Nishida Kuniyoshi, and novelist Saneatsu Mushanokōji. A ...