{"id":5181,"date":"2025-08-18T19:32:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/103-year-old-remembers-soviet-attack-right-after-wwii\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T19:32:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:32:31","slug":"103-year-old-remembers-soviet-attack-right-after-wwii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/103-year-old-remembers-soviet-attack-right-after-wwii\/","title":{"rendered":"103-year-old remembers Soviet attack right after WWII"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"dateline\">Otaru, Hokkaido &ndash; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>A 103-year-old former soldier of the now-defunct Imperial Japanese Army still vividly remembers suffering a sudden Soviet attack on one of the Chishima islands, also known as the Kuril Islands, he had been stationed three days after Japan&rsquo;s surrender in World War II.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I want no more war,&rdquo; says Shoichi Takahashi, also a former Soviet labor camp detainee in Siberia. &ldquo;War is simply unacceptable.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>A native of Aomori, Takahashi moved to Otaru in Hokkaido when he was 19 and became a fisherman. Later, he joined the army.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>103-year-old remembers Soviet attack right after WWII<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Otaru, Hokkaido &ndash; A 103-year-old former soldier of the now-defunct Imperial Japanese Army still vividly remembers suffering a sudden Soviet attack on one of the Chishima islands, also known as the Kuril Islands, he had been stationed three days after Japan&rsquo;s surrender in World War II. &ldquo;I want no more war,&rdquo; says Shoichi Takahashi, also&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/103-year-old-remembers-soviet-attack-right-after-wwii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;103-year-old remembers Soviet attack right after WWII&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}