The Bone Man of Kokoda: The Extraordinary Story of Kokichi Nishimura and the Kokoda Track by Charles Happell

The Bone Man of Kokoda: The Extraordinary Story of Kokichi Nishimura and the Kokoda Track by Charles Happell

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9780330424844
Author: Charles Happell
Edition: 2nd Edition
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
Place: Sydney NSW
Year: 2009
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288 pages
Period: 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Pages are sunned.

Kokichi Nishimura was a member of the 2nd Battalion, 144th Regiment of the Japanese Imperial Army. In 1942 he fought along every foot of Kokoda as the Japanese attempted to take Port Moresby. He was the only man from his company to survive the campaign.

As he was evacuated to safety, he promised that one day he would return to his comrades and bring them home to Japan for proper burial. After the war, Nishimura prospered. But under the surface, the driving ambition of his life was to fulfil his promise.

In 1979, he shocked his family by returning to New Guinea to search for the remains of Japanese soldiers. For the next 25 years, Nishimura lived alone along the Kokoda Track. Armed only with a metal detector, a mattock and a shovel, he searched for his dead comrades.

Over the years, he found hundreds of them - some he could identify and return their bones to their families; others were unknown, and their remains were sent to Japan's official shrine for its war dead in Tokyo.

In 2005 Nishimura, now in his mid-eighties and seriously ill, was forced to return to Japan. His story is an incredible adventure that gives us a radically different viewpoint on a battle that has become part of our national myth. Above all, Nishimura's life and quest offer a poignant reminder of the futility of war.

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