Interesting. If I recall a Lieutenant Norita Sadatoshi and a spare 48 man crew were transported to Germany in 1942 aboard the Japanese submarine I-8 and were given training in U-Boats the Baltic before assuming command of the German Type IXC U-1224 to return it to Japan for reverse engineering. Like Hashimoto they never quite made it.
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