Yoshio Muto
Encyclopedia
is a Japan
ese diplomat who served as Imperial Japan's consul general in the United States
from February 20, 1941 until the withdrawal of the mission on December 31, 1941. Some historians of the period have speculated that in the run-up to the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, the consulate, located in San Francisco, was a spy center and that Mutō was himself a spy . No concrete evidence, however, has been presented to corroborate these allegations.
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese diplomat who served as Imperial Japan's consul general in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
from February 20, 1941 until the withdrawal of the mission on December 31, 1941. Some historians of the period have speculated that in the run-up to the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, the consulate, located in San Francisco, was a spy center and that Mutō was himself a spy . No concrete evidence, however, has been presented to corroborate these allegations.