Private Yokoi's war and life on Guam, 1944-1972 : the story of the Japanese Imperial Army's longest WWII survivor in the field and later life

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Private Yokoi's war and life on Guam, 1944-1972 : the story of the Japanese Imperial Army's longest WWII survivor in the field and later life

by Omi Hatashin

Global Oriental, 2009

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"This present book contains a full English translation of Shō-ichi Yokoi's autobiography, which was originally published by Bungei Shunjū in 1974"--p. xv

Includes index

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内容説明

In 1972, when discovered by local hunters on Guam, former tailor Yokoi was widely reported as a 'no surrender man' who survived, living up to the old Japanese military code of honour. This book is about the reality of such a man (and the ingenuity he applied to ensure his survival), which is very different from the stereotype. This book sheds a different light on the reality of the war in the Pacific while addressing some key issues concerning the nature of Japanese culture in modern times.

目次

  • Chronology
  • List of Plates, Introduction
  • 1 Early days
  • 2 To where are we going to be posted?
  • 3 'Deployment' in Guam
  • 4 The US invasion: 'Attack the Americans and die!'
  • 5 The last days of our platoon
  • 6 'Survival war' in the jungle: 'Don't rush to die. The Japanese army is coming to rescue us'
  • 7 'Japan has surrendered, come out'
  • 8 'We shall never surrender'
  • 9 'I shall survive on my own'
  • 10 Tailoring from tree fibres: The empire will strike back in a decade'
  • 11 'No way to survive but to hide us underground'
  • 12 'How to get off Guam?'
  • 13 The death of my last colleagues
  • 14 Eight years in solitude
  • 15 Factors in my survival
  • 16 Discovery: 'No one shall remain alive to incur the shame of becoming a prisoner of war'
  • 17 Epilogue: Being thankful for this day in order the better to arrive at tomorrow

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