The natives are yours and you are the new chief and they will work and serve you according to the laws and customs of Hawaii….

—KING KAMEHAMEHA V, UPON THE SALE OF NIIHAU TO AYLMER ROBINSON’S GREAT-GRANDMOTHER, IN 1864

Japan will notify her consuls of war decision in her foreign broadcasts as weather report at end. North Wind Cloudy Russia. West Wind Clear Britain. East Wind Rain United States.

—U.S. WAR DEPARTMENT’S TRANSLATION OF JAPANESE “WINDS CODE,” INTERCEPTED NOVEMBER 19, 1941

Higashi no kaze ame (east wind, rain).

—TOKYO WEATHER FORECAST, DECEMBER 4, 1941