Word: aka
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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Hewing to the propaganda line of universal, suicidal resistance, Japan's Domei news agency last week reported a new band of self-liquidating heroes. This time, Domei said, the "special attackers" were schoolchildren on Aka Island, in the Kerama group, who rushed at U.S. invaders, "blasting themselves with hand grenades." Too deeply moved for prose, the newspaper Mainichi published this elegy...