Osami Murata

Osami Murata was a Japanese radio man from Tokyo who was relocated to Hawaii during its occupation by Japan at the KGMB studio, and broadcast radio propaganda of describing how life is "better" under the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Murata worked with local Japanese immigrant Jiro Takahashi in working the radio shows. Initially, Murata was very friendly towards the fisherman. But by the time of the second U.S. retaking of Hawaii, Murata assigned Jiro a non-believable script stating that all Japanese Hawaiian residents supported against the Americans. Which Jiro was very reluctant to say it as he understand well that not everyone supported Japan, including his own sons. This caused Murata to reveal to a stunned Takahashi that he was being used as a propaganda tool from the very beginning.