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
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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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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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