In a book called sipan, oral histories of the pacific war, by bruce m petty, he recounts story after story told by chamoro people who survived this affair. In his book, combined fleet decoded, author john predos quotes another japanese diary, this one by a soldier named nagada kazumi. He writes that only panese officers and men will fight under such hopeless conditions. The spirit of umato, however, is rendered powerless by the overwhelming strength and the heavy weapons of the enemy. If you can't spare some sympathy for japanese civilians, at least spare some for the chimoros, the people of sipan, who were