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
Global Oriental, 2009
Available at 6 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"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
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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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