Internet
Links
There are few Internet links on this topic,
despite the incredible nature of Japanese holdouts and their legacy. Please,
send any additional links to me at justin@wanpela.com
Has references to the Japanese soldiers that held out there. contributed by Reine Wonite
The Japan Times August 15, 1997
Article about Japanese veterans visiting the National
war shrine. contributed by Reine Wonite
The
Last Surrender in the Marianas
A group shipwrecked survivors holds out until June of
1951.
Psywar
Society
British Leaflet to Japanese in Burma
Japanese soldiers
at war
The
Army that Disappeared
A 170,000 Army has only one survivor. Read about death and starvation
among fleeing soldiers in New Guinea.
Post Surrender
Topics
Saipan's
WWII Virtual Museum
Great photos of the island, and late surrendering troops. Lots of pictures
and news clippings.
How
History Repeats Itself
Article that mentions holdouts
by James L. Secor
The
Return of Stragglers and Japanese Constructions of Womanhood in Collective
Memories of World War II
Article by Beatrice Trefalt
Japanese WWII soldier found alive
Ex-soldier who disappeared after World War II and was officially declared dead in 2000 has turned up alive in Ukraine. Thanks to Jared Grimmer for this link.
Film
Anyone with copies of these movies, or knowledge about
where to locate them, please contact
me.
The
Burmese Harp (1956)
Directed by Kon Ichikawa
Thanks to James Oglethorpe for this link.
Anatahan (1954)
Directed by Josef von Sternberg
Thanks to Mark Harris for this link
Yokoi
Shoichi: guamu-to 28 nen no nazo o ou (1977)
(Human Drama: 28 Years of Hiding in
the Jungle.) Directed by Nagisa Oshima
Thanks to Josh Martin for this link
Music
The Maids "Back To Bataan" 1979
Superboys "Hiroo Onoda" album 2001
Art
Hiroo
Onoda
1995 Oil Painting by Peter Femenella
Books
28 Years in the Guam Jungle
by Sankei Shimbun
Tom Stacey Ltd 1972
No
Surrender My Thirty-year War
by Hiroo Onoda
Philippines holdout until 1974
Oba:
The Last Samurai
by Don Jones
Saipan Holdout until December 1945
Saipan:
Oral Histories of the Pacific War
by Bruce Petty
Holdouts on Anatahan, Guam, Saipan and nian
The
Long and the Short and the Tall
by Alvin M., Jr. Josephy
Describes LCI "peaceship" on Guam to get wartime holdouts to
surrender.
The Stragglers
by E.J. Kahn, Jr.
The Emperor's last soldiers
by Ito, Masashi
Japanese who hid 16 years on Guam
Island in Agony
Guam Holdouts story. Currently out of print, and not available.
Documentaries
Last Surrneder
[ USA / History Channel ] Includes interviews with Hiroo Onoda, and aired in
2003.
Television Shows
Gilligan's Island
"So Sorry, My Island Now" (1964)
A Japanese Soldier who believes WWII is still going on (played by Vito
Scotti) lands his one-man sub on the island. The soldier was played by
an Italian, and parodied of WWII-era Japanese sterotypes. He also appears
in flashback in episode titled "Diogenese, won't you please come home?" (1965)