Sex
Male
Status
Deceased
Yamashita is mentioned several times in Prisoner of the Turnip Heads, including:
- Pg. 92: "In March ((1942)) Oda decided that having no senior Japanese in Stanley camp was too risky and appointed the former Hong Kong Hotel barber, Yamashita, as camp commandant."
- Pg. 117: "I always had the impression he knew more than he was letting on. No doubt years of listening to gossip in his barber's shop which was full of service officers and passing on the tit-bits to the Japanese authorities had been the reason he secured the plum post of camp commandant. He was actively disliked by most of us, unlike Nagasawa, as he was moody, overfond of the bottle, and totally unpredictable."
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Notes from John Charter's…
Notes from John Charter's Diary:
Classic example of a 5th…
Classic example of a 5th columnist. There were many suspected in pre-WWII Hong Kong.
Barbara Anslow
Barbara Anslow tells us that when the Lisbon Maru went down, Yamashita took on the task of finding out who had died and who had survived.