| | | | Part One Knives and Scars Nov. 26,1941 - Dec. 7,1941 |
| 1 | Joseph | McGrady | A police detective from Honolulu Police Department. aka: Joe. |
| | Jimmy | Dorsey | American musician. |
| | Tip | | A barman. |
| | J.H. | Beamer | A police captain. |
| | Molly | Radcliffe | Joe McGrady's girlfriend. |
| | Chief | Gabrielson | A police chief. |
| | Reginald | Faithful | A dairyman. aka: Reggie. |
| | Miguel | Silva | Faithful's cowhand. |
| | Apana | Chang | Chinese-Hawaiian member of the Honolulu Police Department. |
| | Mrs. | Faithful | Reginald's wife. |
| 3 | Kondo | | An old sergeant. |
| 5 | Edward | Kimmel | A Navy Admiral. |
| 6 | Underhill | | A colonel. |
| 8 | Henry K. | Willard | Admiral Kimmel's nephew. |
| 10 | Fred | Ball | A detective. |
| | Marcia | Lee | A secretary. |
| | Bob | Shiver | A special agent. |
| | Hirohito | | 124th emperor of Japan. |
| | John | Carroll | A reporter. |
| | Lil | Green | American blues singer and songwriter. |
| 14 | John | Kaiwi | A patrol officer. |
| | John Francis | Kincaid | Director of Alexander and Baldwin. |
| | John D. | Rockefeller | American business magnate and philanthropist. |
| 16 | Tom | | Joe McGrady's brother. |
| | Harue | | A maid. |
| | Hideki | Yamashiro | Harue's father. |
| | Aiko | | Harue's mother. |
| | Elijah | Reed | Harue's employer. |
| | Lieutenant | Kahn | A surgeon. |
| 18 | John | Smith | A German officer. |
| 19 | Frank Lloyd | Wright | American architect, designer, writer and educator. |
| | Andrew | Carnegie | Scottish-American industrialist. |
| | James | Devereux | U.S. marine corps general. |
| | Vincent | Russo | A U.S. marine. |
| | Emily | Kam | A Hong Kong resident. |
| 20 | Maria | | A receptionist from the hotel. |
| | | | Part Two Chakken December 7,1941 - January 6, 1942 |
| 21 | J. Edgar | Hoover | Former Director of the FBI. |
| 22 | Ian | | A desk clerk. |
| | Mr. | Li | A porter. |
| 24 | Nathan | DeVries | An Acting General Consul. |
| 28 | Kansei | Takahashi | First deputy to Togo Shigenori. |
| | Togo | Shigenori | Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan. |
| | Franklin | Roosevelt | 32nd U.S. President. |
| | Cordell | Hull | Former U.S. Secretary of State. |
| | Joseph | Stalin | Former Premier of the Soviet Union. |
| | Vyacheslav | Molotov | A Soviet politician and diplomat. |
| 29 | Hans | Schmidt | A Lutheran pastor. |
| | Adolf | Hitler | The leader of the Nazi Party. |
| | Miyako | Takahashi | Kansei Takahashi's niece. |
| | Isoroku | Yamamoto | Japanese Marshal Admiral. |
| | Humi | Henderson | Takahashi's ex-wife |
| | Sachi | | Takahashi's daughter. |
| | | | Part Three Meetinghouse Nov. 23,1944 - Dec. 31,1945 |
| 39 | Douglas | MacArthur | United States Army general in WWI, WWII and Korea. |
| | Daniel | O'Brian | A guy who was shot dead by McGrady. aka: Danny Boy. |
| 40 | Mr. | Hirata | A grocery owner. |
| | Joe | Ball | Molly and Fred Ball's son. |
| | Bob | Henderson | Kumi's husband. |
| 42 | Kate | | Joe McGrady's new acquaintance. |
| | Mr. | Michaels | Worked at Moana Hotel. |
| 43 | Michelle | | Kate's roommate. |
| | Dorothy | | Michelle's acquaintance. |
| 44 | Betty | | Dorothy's imaginary friend. |
| | Carolina | | Kate's acquaintance. |
| 45 | Gregory | Peck | American actor. |
| | Ingrid | Bergman | A Swedish actress. |
| 46 | Veronica | Lake | American film actress. |
| 48 | John | Renders | Joe McGrady's new acquaintance. |
| 49 | Klara | Weber | The first signer on the Golden Phoenix account. |
| | Jan Van | Dijk | DeVries' acquaintance. |
| 51 | Admiral | Canaris | A German officer. Smith's mentor. |
| 53 | Anders | | Joe McGrady's acquaintance. |