JAP SUICIDE FIGHTER NOT SO HEROIC
TOKIO Warrant Officer Magoshichi Sugino, fabled as a suicide fighter who helped scuttle a Japanese river boat at the entrance of Port Arthur, Manchuria, and bottle up the Russian fleet, is reported ready to come home from shame-faced exile of 44 years. The discovery of the erstwhile hero, around whoin the bushido (immortality through death in war) co.de was strengthened and for whom songs are written and statues erected, gives the code a death blow. It was belief in that code which sent thousands of young Japanese to their graves in senseless banzai charges iri the second World War. * Suginb, old but in excellent health, was reported to have been discoyered and identified at a Manchurian repatriation port by home-going Japanese. They considered him to be an insult to hero-worshi'ppers who had revered his name for the "sacrjfice" he had made,-
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5324, 10 February 1947, Page 7
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147JAP SUICIDE FIGHTER NOT SO HEROIC Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5324, 10 February 1947, Page 7
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