Japanese Soldier Doll
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Warrant Officer Kiyoshi Takagawa

Uniform Progress

Here I am, the last surviving Japanese soldier that is in the way of the American advance. It must stop with me.

Oh, they are playing a song from my home town. This makes me feel homesick. I miss my Otosan and Okasan.

太平洋の波の上
帝都の南千余キロ
浮かぶ眇たる一孤島
今皇国の興廃を
決する要衝硫黄島
 
物量たのむ敵国が
マリアナ侵し今すでに
大和島根に迫り来て
ただ一線に残されて
最後の砦硫黄島
 
この島こそは仇敵の
飽くなき野望の墓場たれ
来たりても身よ全島は
一木一草分かちなく
武装を終われり硫黄島
 
拠る武士は皇国の
選び抜きたる決死隊
敵撃滅の火と燃えて
日夜耐えざる訓練を
重ねてぞ待つ硫黄島
 
千早に拠りし楠公の
故事にも例えんこの守り
敵兵百万寄するとも
寸土も侵すことならじ
磐石の城硫黄島
 
われらこの地にある限り
皇土は安し永遠に
日本男児の名を賭して
苦難に克ちて護り抜く
誉れも高き硫黄島
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Iōjima bōei no uta

Taiheiyō no nami no ue
Teito no minami sen yo-kiro
Ukabu chīsana ichi kotō
Ima Nihon [2] no kōhai o
Kessuru yōshō Iō Jima

Ware-ra kono ji ni aru kagiri
Hondo wa yasushi eien ni
Nippon danji no na o toshite
Kunan ni kachite mamori nuku
Homare mo takaki Iō Jima.


On the waves of the Pacific,
Down south from the Imperial city
a small lonely islands floats.
The fate of our imperial country
Lies in the hands of this island,
Iwo Jima.
As long as we stand,
We shall feel safe,
As the imperial land shall forever be at peace.
We shall fight with pride
and honor at any price,
Our proud island, Iwo Jima.

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'Oh, I not see the box before. What is it doing here? Oh, it is not locked".