MATA-HAJI

Since I came back in Okinawa last summer of 1990 everyone I know seems to be interested about the 82 days of Okinawa Campaign. If you talk with anyone about it, it makes you feel like you are being heard. They actually listen to you, so I bring myself down to their level. And they would greatly pleased to met such a sensible little oriental lady.



MATA-HAJI: Jewel of the East The most renowned woman in spy history--although she probably wasn't one. She was naive and easily duped--and trapped--by her "fate" as well as her enemies during World War 1. Reincarnated in Osaka, Japan 10 years after being executed by a French Firing squad. Aya Yamaguchi was born to a well-to-do Samurai ancestry. Her mother was of German ancestry a second generation of her family in the United States. Her father who was Japanese met her mother in a University in California as an exchange student. Aya attended homeschool due to being discriminated as a half child. She was also forced to having sex with the headmaster. Aya was flawless in German, Japanese and English. At age 18 she married a Kamikaze Pilot who vanished the next day after their wedding. She soon met General Taira who just came back from Manchuria and went with him in Okinawa in 1944. They soon moved to Shuri Castle in the Japanese Army Headquarters. She went to the Philippines while staying at the Manila Hotel she fell on the stairs and had amnesia. She assumed the name Mata-Haji and the persona of a Geisha. She had several affairs with the Japanese officers and passed secret information to American officers. When the Philippines was liberated from the Japanese in 1945. Mata-Haji was invited to Okinawa by the Americans as an interpreter. While swimming in her birthday suit at the Item Pocket at Machiminato she dove under and a big explosion was seen. The blue water turned red and the Eye of the Sun, disappeared into the East China Sea. Until now the Yamaguchi family has been lobbying for Mata-Haji's heroic recognition. As a Japanese citizen she was considered as a traitor and the U.S. government can not give her any recognition because she declined to be a U.S. citizen.
Talking Sweet Potato
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