Nobuaki "Warren" Iwatake was Radio Operator and communications intercepter and a veteran of the World War 2 Imperial Japanese Army.

He was born in Hawaii, USA, and he graduated from Maui High School, class of 1941. Warren was the eldest son of six children and was raised in Kahului. The father of Iwatake, a Kobayashi store employee, presumed drowned from a fishing trip at Peahi. Warren then moved to Hiroshima, Japan, to live with an uncle.

Iwatake was beaten and drafted against his will into the Imperial Japanese Army from a Japanese college in 1943.

He was present when former United States President George H.W. Bush was shot down over the Pacific in his Avenger bomber, during September 1944, and was later rescued by a submarine. Two American crewman with Bush were killed.

He missed the battle of Iwo Jima due to an American submarine attack on his ship's convoy, Iwatake was then placed on Chichi Jima, 150 miles north of Iwo Jima. American forces bombed Chichi Jima to cut radio communications between islands. Former President George W. Bush's task was to bomb the island's communication towers, and possibly any Imperial Japanese forces.

Iwatake was present when Japanese Imperial forces captured an Texas American pilot "Warren Vaughn" in February 1945. According to Iwatake, the pilot was executed at the harbor by beheading. Due to the "island hopping" strategy by American forces, the island was spared an invasion attack.

Iwatake lost his youngest brother in the Hiroshima atomic bomb attack. The yougest brother was 500 yards from the epicenter attending a school. Reportly, the only thing left was a US Army canteen, as the youngest brother was vaporized in the atomic attack.

After the war, Iwatake, served as a translator for the American Embassy in Tokyo for 35 years.