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Kazuko was living alone with her second husband, Kikuichiro, on tiny (2 mi. by 5 mi.) Anatahan Island in the Marianas when the survivors of three bombed Japanese ships swam ashore in 1945. For three years the couple lived with the castaways, until one day Kazuko's husband was murdered. "I felt lonely," says Kazuko, and she took up with one of the castaways. After 20 days of bliss, her lover was drowned. She went to live with another, the man who had killed her husband. "At first I repelled him coldly, but a weak woman is no match...
While Kazuko moved from one lover to another, Imperial Japan made its peace with the U.S. The U.S. Navy tried to tell the castaways on Anatahan about this development, but they refused to believe it. Just a trick, they said, and went on training their few machine guns on the beach. In 1950, however, Kazuko decided that anything was better than trying to please more than two dozen men. She slipped away from her current love, signaled a U.S. patrol boat cruising near the beach and surrendered. Her menfolk held out for another year and then surrendered themselves...
...white flag was raised last week to signal the surrender of 19 Japanese holdouts still fighting World War II on tiny Anatahan Island. One of their group, Japanese Petty Officer Junji Inoue, had surrendered to the crew of a U.S. Navy tug three weeks ago (TIME, June 25). He told his captors then that the others were being held in thrall at machine-gun point by a tyrannical seaman named Ichiro. The Navymen dropped encouraging letters on the holdouts' camp from the air and waited. Last week the remaining Japanese met them on the beach, bearing the ashes...
...years ago, U.S. dive bombers sank three small Japanese cargo ships in the harbor of the tiny island of Anatahan, 61 miles north of Saipan. Thirty-three Japanese soldiers and sailors scrambled ashore and set up camp on the island. The men lived on lizards, mangoes, bananas and coconuts, made clothes for themselves out of parachute nylon salvaged from the wreckage...
Last week, finally persuaded by a letter from his brother, Petty Officer Junji Inoue, clad in parachute shirt and pants, stepped out of Anatahan's bushes and gave himself up to the crew of a Navy tug. Still holding out with one machine gun in the island's hills: 18 of his companions, who were still unconvinced that peace had broken...
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