Ryōji Uehara

Deceased Person

1922 – 1945

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Who was Ryōji Uehara?

Ryōji Uehara was a flight captain of the Imperial Japanese Army and was killed in action as a kamikaze pilot.

Uehara entered the Department of Economics at Keio University in 1942 and joined the 50th regiment in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, later that same year. He was a member of the 56th Shinmu squadron of the IJA Air Corps when he carried out his final mission against the US carrier fleet near Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on 11 May 1945. He was 22 years old.

His letter, written to his parents the night before his final mission, was published after the war and it is still regarded as a masterpiece of wartime literary works in Japan.

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Born
1922
Ikeda
Education
  • Keio University
Lived in
  • Nagano Prefecture
Died
1945

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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