Byakkotai
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The Byakkotai was a group of around 305 young teenage samurai of the Aizu Domain, who fought in the Boshin War on the side of the Tokugawa shogunate.
Statue of Byakkotai warriors at Iimori Hill, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
Pompeii column from Benito Mussolini currently erected on Iimoriyama
Memorial on Iimori Mountain.
Tablets with the names of Byakkotai members who committed suicide.
Iinuma Sadakichi
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Iinuma Sadakichi was a Japanese military officer of the Imperial Japanese Army and former member of the Byakkotai of the Aizu Domain.
Byakkotai
…Hayashi Yasoji The sole survivor, Iinuma Sadakichi, attempted suicide but was unsuccessful. He was saved by a local peasant. After the war, he moved to the nearby city of Sendai, and lived there until…
Iinuma Sadakichi