Richard Motoso Sakakida was a United States Army intelligence agent stationed in the Philippines at the outbreak of World War II.
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20 Facts About Richard Sakakida
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Richard Sakakida was captured and tortured for months after the fall of the country to Imperial Japan, but managed to convince the Japanese that he was a civilian and was released.
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Richard Sakakida planned and participated in the mass escape of about 500 Filipino prisoners.
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Richard Sakakida was a Nisei, the youngest of four children of Japanese immigrant parents.
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Richard Sakakida was recruited into the US Army in March 1941, while America was still neutral in World War II.
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Richard Sakakida joined the American retreat, first to Bataan, then to Corregidor.
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Richard Sakakida's duties involved translating documents and interrogating Japanese prisoners of war.
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Richard Sakakida persuaded his superiors to let attorney Clarence Yamagata take his seat; Richard Sakakida was unmarried, while Yamagata had a wife and children living in Japan and his pro-American activities had been more public.
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Richard Sakakida accompanied General Jonathan Wainwright as his interpreter during the surrender negotiations.
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Richard Sakakida's mother had taken the precaution of voiding his Japanese citizenship at the Japanese consulate in Hawaii in August 1941, and the charge of treason was dropped.
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Richard Sakakida spent nearly a year in one prison after another, before his case was reviewed in February 1943 by Colonel Nishiharu, Chief Judge Advocate of Fourteenth Army Headquarters.
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Richard Sakakida devised a plan for a mass escape for Tupas and other Filipino prisoners.
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Richard Sakakida posed as a Japanese officer and led a band of guerrillas into the prison at Muntinglupa.
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Richard Sakakida returned to the Counterintelligence Corps and was promoted to master sergeant.
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Richard Sakakida testified at the war crimes trial of General Tomoyuki Yamashita, as he had been an interpreter in the office of the general's Judge Advocate.
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Richard Sakakida remained in Manila for eighteen months, working on war crime investigations; he encountered some of his former torturers, whom he forgave.
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Richard Sakakida married Cherry M Kiyosaki of Maui on September 25,1948.
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Richard Sakakida transferred to the United States Air Force and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel.
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Richard Sakakida received four medals from the Philippine government, including the Philippine Legion of Honor, presented to him by Ambassador Raul Rabe at a ceremony at the Philippine Embassy in Washington, DC on April 15,1994.
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On February 17,1999, the senator announced that Richard Sakakida had been posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Medal.
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