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Sannwald wasn’t the only Harvard alumnus who fought under the flag of an Axis nation during World War II. Special Student Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto—one of the central planners behind the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor—and Dr. Shokichi Otajima, a 1934 graduate of the School of Public Health, were killed in the Japanese army in New Georgia and Saipan, respectively. Their names, unlike Sannwald’s, remain tucked in yellowing folders in the University Archives...
...University has learned of two other enemy war casualties, but their names were not carved on the plaque. The men were Isoroku Yamamoto, special student from 1919 to 1920, who was commander-in-chief of the Japanese Navy at his death in May, 1943 and Dr. Shokichi Otajima, at the School of Public Health from 1932 to 1934, who was killed on Salpan in July...
...Saito, no commoner, is the daughter of the late Baron Dr. Shokichi Xagayo, granddaughter of the even more famed Baron Dr. Sensai Xagayo who introduced vaccination into Japan...
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