Former Japanese soldier Keiji Nagai died November 6, 16:16
Keiji Nagai of Ibaraki-cho, Ibaraki, who has been carrying out activities to pass on the war experience with one of 34 former Japanese soldiers who returned from Peleliu Island in Palau, a fierce battlefield of the Pacific War, I died. I was 98 years old.
Mr. Nagai was born in Kasama City, Ibaraki Prefecture, in Taisho 10th, and a fierce battle was held between Japan and the United States in 1945 at the end of the Pacific War. Participated in a battle on Peleliu Island in Palau, which was almost annihilated between.
There were only 34 ex-Japanese soldiers returning from Peleliu Island, and Nagai-san was the last survivor, and in recent years he has been focusing on activities to pass on war experiences.
According to his family, Mr. Nagai was diagnosed with colorectal cancer and continued treatment last year, but died on the 4th at a hospital in Ibaraki.
Yukio Kageyama, director of the “Mito Niju Regiment Peleliu Island Reunion Society”, who has been together for many years to commemorate the victims of Peleliu, said, “Nagai is the last survivor. I was always telling you with powerful words. I'm very sorry to lose the irreplaceable people. "