# Episode 625 - An Ocean Between Us, Part 2

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Podcast: [History of Japan](https://stenobird.com/podcast/history-of-japan-1062379)
Published: 2026-04-24T11:00:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 2103

## Resource

This week: rumors swirled around Port Angeles for decades after WWII that a Japanese man, Osasa Masaru, who had lived there from 1930-39 was in fact a Japanese spy who'd been sent to Port Angeles to report on the movements of the American Pacific Fleet. The reality is at once far more interesting and far more mundane. Show notes here .

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