Built Li fe o f a Holdout Japanese in 1954 in the rich greenery of South Jakarta, this heroes cemetery (Yoshikawakobunkan, 2011), is the largest war memorial in Indonesia honoring fallen patriots Japanese Soldiers Who Stayed who had dedicated their own lives to the cause during the war of independence with the Netherlands in the latter half of the 1940s.1 Behind: The Postwar Period for Among those. [...] For instance, and become self-sustaining if he returned to Superior Private Miyayama Shigeo decided Japan.5 to stay on “to die for the cause of Indonesia’s independence,” while First Class Private On the other side of the coin, why did the Hirooka Isamu remained because he was Indonesian side decide to accept the holdout familiar with the local state of affairs and well- Imperial Japanese Army sol. [...] Toward the end of 1948, the Republic soldiers and the ulterior motive on the Indonesian of Indonesia faced a crisis situation when its side dovetailed, a large number of Imperial capital city of Yogyakar ta fell to the Dutch Japanese Army soldiers decided to stay behind, forces and its President Sukarno and Vice mainly in western Java and northern Sumatra. [...] A battlefield diar y kept by Sergeant Ono Sakari, which the present author unearthed Sergeant Ono, keeper of the battlefield diary, in 2004, revealed some of the realities of the was discharged from the Imperial Japanese holdout Imperial Japanese Army soldiers during Ar my in December 1945 and joined the the Indonesian War of Independence.7 Ono kept Indonesian army. [...] During the of ficial visit this time, the Emperor and Empress Reiwa chose to receive the children and grandchildren of the holdout Imperial Japanese Army soldiers in Indonesia for the first time as emperor and empress.
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