East Chief of German Intelligence who pursues Toge around the world both to get the documents and kill him for revenge. Rosa Lampe: Acetylene's daughter and a Gestapo informant. Reports Isao, resulting in his death, and later Sohei which results in his torture. Commits suicide after Sohei leaves Germany. : A Japanese police chief who takes Toge's side, and lets him stay at his place. Is killed in a shootout with the Gestapo. : The chief's daughter, who falls in love with Yoshio. Later moves to run a bar with Okei, after Honda's death. : A widow who wears Yakuza tattoos. Falls in love with Toge and shelters him during a pursuit by the secret police. : A geisha who was secretly working for the Communists. Murdered by Kaufmann when they were involved in a tryst during the Gestapo's search for the documents. : Sachi's brother, an Imperial Army officer. Loves Yukie and pulls favors for her, including guaranteeing Toge which prevents him from being tortured to death in the beginning of the story. He kills himself after his high position in the Army makes war crimes accusations likely. : Honda's son. After living in Manchukuo and seeing Japanese oppression firsthand, becomes part of Sorge's spy network. Admires his disgraced aunt's motives, and later becomes friends with Toge and Kamil. Falls in love with Mieko, but is killed by his father after revealing that he is a spy. His father conceals his death as a suicide. : A half-Japanese, half-German boy living in Kobe. Though he opposes the Nazis at first, he develops a hatred for the Jews during his stay in Germany and persecutes them fervently, only renouncing these views at the end of his life. He later joins the Sicherheitsdienst, then Gestapo, then the PLO. He is killed by Kamil, in revenge for the murder of his father. : Adolf Kaufmann's father and a strong follower of Adolf Hitler. He works for the German Consulate General in Kobe. : Wolfgang's wife and mother to Adolf. She is unaware of what her husband is doing for the Nazi Party. Later renounces her German citizenship and marries Toge. Dies of injuries sustained during the Kobe bombings, but births their daughter before passing. : A Jewish-German boy who considers himself Japanese, and who accidentally learns the secret behind Adolf Hitler's ancestry. He joins Toge's group during the struggle for control of