The USS President is a 10,000-ton luxury cruise ship that travels between China and the United States. As early as 1921, it launched regular flights from San Francisco, the United States, to Shanghai, China. The entire voyage passed through Los Angeles, Hawaii, and Manila to Hong Kong, then stopped in Kobe, Japan, and then arrived in Shanghai.
In the early morning of December 5, 1933, the USS President, which had been sailing on the ocean for a full 25 days, docked in Kobe, Japan for 10 hours. This huge steel ship once again moved its slow body and slowly left. After arriving at the port, we sailed towards the depths of the vast blue ocean, breaking through the waves towards the final destination of our trip - Shanghai, China.
Junichiro Oda stood at the door of the first-class cabin on the third floor of the deck, holding on to the ship's railing, overlooking the crowds of people on the shore who were bidding farewell to their loved ones. Looking at the gradually blurred but still waving arms, he felt a touch of nostalgia in his heart. . He has not returned to his hometown for twenty years. Due to his occupation, he does not even know if his parents are still alive.
But at the same time, another voice sounded deep in his heart: "For the great cause of the empire, any sacrifice you make is worth it."
Junichiro Oda boarded the President cruise ship from Hong Kong on December 3. His identity at this time was a Hong Kong businessman named Wang Defa. He was accompanied by a young couple who were nicknamed his niece Wang Shufang and niece's son-in-law Liu Rengui.
Junichiro Oda is in his forties, but he has a height of 172 centimeters that is different from ordinary Japanese. Even among Chinese people of this period, he is considered tall.
Perhaps it was because he had stood out among the Japanese since he was a child that he was enrolled in the spy school of the Japanese Naval Intelligence Department when he was less than 12 years old. After eight years of rigorous training, he graduated with honors.
Junichiro Oda has been sent to Hong Kong as an intelligence officer for twenty years. In these twenty years, he started from an ordinary wage earner and started a history of struggle as a successful person.
Under the deliberate arrangement of the Japanese intelligence agency, he encountered many adventures and received help from noble people. Finally, he founded a trading company called Wangji Trading Company. The business grew bigger and bigger, and he has joined the upper class of the Chinese business community in Hong Kong. He is honest, warm and generous to others and is quite famous in the Chinese circle.
Of course, as Wangji Trading Company becomes larger and larger, Junichiro Koten's contribution to the Japanese intelligence department will also become greater and greater. He is now an ace agent directly under the Japanese Naval Intelligence Department and leads an intelligence team of up to 11 people, codenamed 'Butterfly' Team.
At this time, the Japanese Intelligence Ministry had long received information that Mr. Situ was raising anti-Japanese funds from the Chinese community in North America, and was naturally unwilling to allow so much funds to be transported to China smoothly.
Moreover, the Anliang Tang founded by Mr. Situ has become more and more influential in calling on overseas Chinese compatriots to support the motherland in the war of resistance in the United States and North America, making the Japanese quite fearful and resentful.
You must know that since the September 18th Incident, Anliangtang has launched a boycott of Japanese goods in the Chinese community in the United States, and in New York, Anliangtang's gang members have had many conflicts with local Japanese expatriates.
Of course, in most cases of this kind of conflict, the Japanese expatriates were beaten black and blue, or even had their arms and legs broken. Even though Anliangtang's gang members were arrested by the American police, they openly wandered around the Japanese expatriate community again the next day, making the Japanese expatriates who were at an absolute disadvantage in numbers dare not speak out.
You know, the 1930s was the period when gang organizations were most prosperous in the United States. Immigrants from all countries almost had their own gang organizations. The most famous among them is the mafia that came out of Sicily, Italy. However, the Chinese Hongmen during this period was also a large gang that should not be underestimated.
This can be seen from the fact that almost no other gangs dare to get involved in the Chinatowns of New York and San Francisco.
At this time, there were not many Japanese expatriates in the United States, and the Yamaguchi-gumi gang, which they could openly and openly operate in Japan, could only do so with their tail between their legs in the United States.
Therefore, the Chinese influence in the United States far exceeds that of the Japanese. It can even be said that the Japanese expatriates dare not raise their heads.
Japan has nothing to do about this situation. Even if it lodges a protest with the US government through the embassy, it will be futile.
why? Even the U.S. government itself can’t do anything about the more violent and arrogant mafia in the country. How can it have time to take care of the disputes among Asian expatriates?
So after hearing the news that Mr. Situ had raised a huge sum of money to support the domestic war of resistance, the Japanese intelligence agency decided to take action to stop and sabotage it.
With Little Japan's urinary temperament, of course he not only wanted to assassinate Mr. Situ, who had considerable appeal in the Chinese community in North America, but also wanted to take away this huge sum of money worth millions of dollars.
The Japanese Naval Intelligence Department also formulated several action plans for this purpose, which even included using force to board the President cruise ship and arrest Mr. Situ when it stopped at the port of Kobe, Japan.
However, this kind of behavior is tantamount to directly challenging the bottom line of the United States, and is likely to trigger a direct war between the United States and Japan.
At this time, the United States' Pacific Fleet is still the most powerful force in the Pacific.
During this period, the power of aircraft carriers had not yet emerged, and battleships' cannon tactics were still the mainstay at sea. The U.S. Pacific Fleet has a total of 10 battleships, and even Japan's combined fleet does not dare to attack them directly.
After countless discussions and deductions, the Japanese Naval Intelligence Department decided to take action on the ship.
Just because on the high seas, any situation that occurs can be blamed on personal behavior, and there will be no disputes that offend national sovereignty.
And the excuses are easy to find, as long as the killer is disguised as a Japanese expatriate from the United States seeking revenge from Anliangtang.
You must know that Anliangtang bullied little Japan severely in the United States. It is understandable that an extremist person among Japanese overseas Chinese would come to assassinate and retaliate.
Of course, when the assassination was successful, the Japanese who endured the humiliation and followed Mr. Situ thousands of miles away to seek revenge would naturally commit suicide by taking poison. As for the disappearance of more than three million U.S. dollars in cashier's checks carried by Mr. Situ, this has nothing to do with us Japanese. If you have the ability, just strip off all the thousands of passengers from all over the world on the ship. Searched.
Therefore, after deciding to implement this operation codenamed "Harvest", the Japanese Naval Intelligence Department dispatched ace agent Junichiro Oda who had been lurking in Hong Kong as a Chinese for twenty years, and appointed him as the commander-in-chief of the operation. .
