Word: koga
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...which reached the U. S. last week. Only Japanese soldiers and officers, he declared, are denied by their "Way of the Warrior" or military code any possibility of surrendering to the enemy and continuing to live thereafter. If captured, even after being knocked unconscious (as was famed Japanese Major Koga at Shanghai last year), a member of the Japanese Army must commit suicide (as Major Koga...
...long as there lives among our soldiers the spirit which Major Koga has shown," declared War Minister Araki, "the Japanese Army can hope to beat any other army! . . . Retreat is absolutely forbidden in the Japanese Army, but this is not so with foreign armies. They retreat whenever they are at a disadvantage in battle. . . . This is no way of fighting! Our lives, from the very beginning, are given up for His Majesty!" (Elsewhere Lieut-General Araki has said that a Japanese officer, in extraordinary circumstances, may command his men to "advance" in a rearward direction...