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  2. Kobayashi Maru - Wikipedia

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    The Kobayashi Maru is a fictional spacecraft training exercise in the Star Trek continuity. It is designed by Starfleet Academy to place Starfleet cadets in a no-win scenario . The Kobayashi Maru test was invented for the 1982 film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , and it has since been referred to and depicted in numerous other Star Trek media.

  3. Type B Cipher Machine - Wikipedia

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    Analog of the Japanese Type B Cipher Machine (codenamed Purple) built by the U.S. Army Signal Intelligence Service Purple analog in use. In the history of cryptography, the "System 97 Typewriter for European Characters" (九七式欧文印字機 kyūnana-shiki ōbun injiki) or "Type B Cipher Machine", codenamed Purple by the United States, was an encryption machine used by the Japanese Foreign ...

  4. Kobayashi (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Kobayashi Electronics, a corporation in the film Cyborg 2 Kobayashi Maru (disambiguation) , including ships named 'Kobayashi' suffixed "maru" " Kobayashi Maru ", the fictional test in Star Trek

  5. Japanese ship-naming conventions - Wikipedia

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    Japanese ship names follow different conventions from those typical in the West. Merchant ship names often contain the word maru at the end (meaning circle), while warships are never named after people, but rather after objects such as mountains, islands, weather phenomena, or animals.

  6. List of Japanese hell ships - Wikipedia

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    Montevideo Maru (もんてびでお丸, Montebideo Maru) – sunk by Sturgeon on 1 July 1942. all 1,054 Australian POWs and civilians died. Nagara Maru [17] Nagata Maru; Nagato Maru; Nanshin Maru; Naruto Maru; Natoru Maru; Nichimei Maru – Sunk on 15 January 1943 by U.S. aircraft, transporting 1,500 Japanese troops and 965 Dutch POWs of which ...

  7. Japanese cryptology from the 1500s to Meiji - Wikipedia

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    Japanese authors have identified two events that influenced the Japanese army's decision to invite a foreigner to improve their cryptology. The first was an incident during the Siberian Intervention. The Japanese army came into possession of some Soviet diplomatic correspondence, but their cryptanalysts were unable decipher the messages.

  8. Kobyashi Naru - Wikipedia

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    Kobyashi Naru is a 1987 adventure game by Mastertronic.The title comes from the Kobayashi Maru scenario in the Star Trek fictional universe, a training test. The player attempts to complete a series of challenges in order to complete the Kobyashi Naru test.

  9. Jack B. Sowards - Wikipedia

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    Sowards created the term Kobayashi Maru (a simulation test in The Wrath of Khan), naming it for his next-door neighbors in Hancock Park. [1] A native of Texarkana, Texas, Sowards had numerous writing credits which extended from episodes of The Bold Ones: The Lawyers in 1969 to an installment of B. L. Stryker in 1990.