Hongo House, Z Unit, and Jack Canon

This article is one of the best descriptions of the notorious 'Hongo House' (above Iwasaki mansion).
Jack Canon had targets set up in the gardens so he could fire at them from his desk inside the mansion. Talk about a 'loose cannon'! , this guy was aptly described by Yoshiko in the following pages. 

These are the pages 276 and 277 from Yoshiko's memoir which mention Hongo House and Jack Canon:

As usual, a few diplomatic words from Yoshiko don't really convey the massive intelligence operations that the Occupation was engaged with in Japan. The modern research of Tessa Morris-Suzuki has uncovered much of this clandestine history:
And her second document on the subject:

From Suzuki's book:


This is another website that also provides interesting information on Z-Unit.


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