This is a list of Japanese holdouts in WWII

1. JAPANESE HOLDOUTS
AFTER WWII

2. THE FIRST HOLDOUTS TO
SURRENDER
• Sakae Oba (Leonard 56)
• Ei Yamaguchi (Beller 88)
• Matsudo Linsoki and
Yamakage kufuku (Mats.)
• Bunzo Minagawa and
Tadashi Ito (Axinn 54)

3. THE LAST TWO HOLDOUTS TO
SURRENDER
• Shoichi Yokoi (Langer 228) (Stone, Chapter 8)

5. Shoichi Yokoi’s cave

6. HIROO ONADA (Stone, Chapter 8)
Others he joined:
• Yuichi Akatsu
• Soichi shimada
• Kinshichi Kozu

7. Another Holdout
Teruo Nakamura
(Stone, Chapter 8)

8. THE BUSHIDO CODE
(Nitobe 3-4)

9. What does this demonstrate about the
Japanese?
It demonstrates the loyalty to their country,
their ability of survival and the courage as
soldiers to fight until the end.

10. BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Axinn, Sidney. A Moral Military. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008.
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• Beller, Susan. Battling in the Pacific: Soldiering in World War II. Minneapolis: Twenty-First Century books, 2007.
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i78ES4C&pg=PA88&dq=%22Ei+Yamaguchi%22&hl=en&ei=Mbi2TtJVhujRAe_b4NEH&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=boo
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• Langer, Howard. World War Two. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1999.
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• Leonard, David. Diving the Pacific: Volume 1: Micronesia and the Western Pacific Islands. Singapore: Tuttle
Publishing, 2001.
http://books.google.com/books?id=Zn7Wv821uZ4C&pg=PA54&dq=%22sakae+Oba%22&hl=en&ei=vji3Tt-
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• “Matsudo Linsoki and Yamakage Kufuku” Accessed November 01, 2011.
http://www.wanpela.com/holdouts/profiles/kufuku/iwo-holdouts.html
• Nitobe, Inazo. Bushido, the Soul of Japan. Tokyo: The Student Company, 1904.
http://books.google.com/books?id=YxwNAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#
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• Stone, Barry. I want to be alone, Solitary lives: Salvation Seekers, Celebrity Recluses, Hermit Poets and Survivalists
from the Buddha to Greta Garbo. Pier 9, 2010.
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