Season 8, Episode 5: Sending this Message was Important to Us (Patreon)
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This week we cover Mobile Suit Gundam 0083 Stardust Memory episode 5: ガンダム、星の海へ or Gundam, to the Sea of Stars. It's an action packed episode featuring new friends, old "friends," and superlative direction. Plus Nina researches the stories of the Imperial Japanese Army's last hold outs in our quest to better understand Lt. Commander Gato.
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Japanese WWII Holdouts
- Wikipedia page for Japanese holdouts, and an independent website that attempts to catalogue and profile Japanese holdouts (both of which were consulted for each of the holdouts discussed).
- About the Battle of Iwojima (Japanese) and Mount Suribachi.
- Additional information about Itō Masashi (伊藤正), and an article about him that appeared in the New Yorker, March 24, 1962 Issue: "The Stragglers: Oh What a Miserable Life This Is!" by E. J. Kahn.
- Wikipedia page for Yokoi Shōichi (横井庄一), and several news articles about him:
BBC News, January 24, 2012: "Shoichi Yokoi, the Japanese soldier who held out in Guam" by Mike Lanchin.
CNN Interactive, September 23, 1997: "Japan's WWII 'no surrender' soldier dies" by John Lewis and Reuters.
Smithsonian Magazine, January 21, 2022: "The Japanese WWII Soldier Who Refused to Surrender for 27 Years" by Meilan Solly. - Profile of Suniuo aka Attun Palalin aka Nakamura Teruo (中村輝夫), and an article about him from the Taipei Times, January 3, 2016: "The last holdout of Morotai" by Han Cheung.
- Profiles of Onoda Hirou (小野田寛郎) in English and Japanese (the Japanese page also includes brief profiles of several other holdouts).
- Photograph of Onoda surrendering his sword to Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos (Malacañang Palace, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons):
- Articles about Onoda:
BBC News, January 17, 2014: "Japan WW2 soldier who refused to surrender Hiroo Onoda dies" (no byline).
BBC History (archived), February 17, 2011: "Japan: No Surrender in World War Two" by David Powers.
Pattaya Daily News, June 15, 2010, "Hiroo Onoda’s Twenty Nine Year Private War" by Patty Brown.
The Guardian, January 17, 2014: "Hiroo Onoda: Japanese soldier who took three decades to surrender, dies" by Justin McCurry.
The recap music is “80's Synth Rock (Guitar Improvisation)” by Zombie-Fish.
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