Word: hasamoto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hasamoto's Choice. Probably the greatest misconception about Japanese fighters is the belief that they will never surrender. It is true that when trapped they fight with a burrowing, rodent tenacity, but it is a mistake, say these officers, to credit their stubbornness to fanatic religious beliefs. It is just animal fight. Both on sea and on land, they are capable of giving...
...224th Infantry Regiment, veterans of China, Borneo and the Philippines, were trapped in a heavily wooded ravine. They could hear a U.S. loudspeaker across the way urging them in Japanese to surrender. At night they talked their situation over. They voted to fight on. But next morning Private Akiyoshi Hasamoto and some of his friends marched, hands up, to the U.S. lines and surrendered. To an interpreter Private Hasamoto said: ". . . Finally my feelings as a true Japanese soldier disappeared. ... I had nothing to lose by surrendering. My actions were prompted primarily by thoughts of hot food, tobacco and relief from...
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