Built Independence: The Life of a in 1954 in the rich greenery of South Jakarta, this heroes cemetery Soldier W ho Stayed Behind is the largest war memorial in Indonesia honoring fallen patriots (Yoshikawakobunkan, 2011), who had dedicated their own lives to the cause during the war of Japanese Soldiers Who Stayed independence with the Netherlands in the latter half of the 1940s. [...] A battlefield diar y kept by Sergeant Ono Sergeant Ono, keeper of the battlefield diary, Sakari, which the present author unearthed was discharged from the Imperial Japanese in 2004, revealed some of the realities of the Ar my in December 1945 and joined the holdout Imperial Japanese Army soldiers during Indonesian army. [...] During “I am now resolutely prepared to deliver tripod the struggle, the Republic of Indonesia and for machine guns [Type 92 heavy machine the Dutch governments concluded armistice gun used by the Imperial Japanese Army, to be agreements twice, both of which were broken exact] to the rear of the enemy line.”9 because of military aggression by the Dutch side. [...] Toward the end of 1948, the Republic Being an informal presence, Ono and other of Indonesia faced a crisis situation when its holdout Japanese soldiers found themselves in capital city of Yogyakar ta fell to the Dutch a predicament during the truce negotiations forces and its President Sukarno and Vice with the Dutch and the reorganization and 7 “Ikitaakashi:ge:Indoneshiadokuritsusensōnonikki”[Pro. [...] to work for the Nichi-Ran Shōgyō Shimbunsha They were also honored with official military (Japan-Dutch Journal of Commerce) in Batavia funerals and burial in the heroes cemeteries.12 and being closely associated with the human Today, Yamano and Maekawa rest in peace in network around Iwata Ainosuke, co-founder the National Main Heroes Cemetery in Kalibata, of the Aikokusha, a rightwing nationali.
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