Japanese Unearth Remains and Their Nation’s Past, on Guadalcanal

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Martin Fackler, Japanese Unearth Remains and Their Nation’s Past, on Guadalcanal; Growing interest in a war a country has long tried to forget. New York Times, Nov 30, 2014.
www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/world ... on-guadalcanal.html

Note:
(a) Japanese surnames:
* Maeda  前田
* Chiba  千葉
* terasaki   寺崎

(b) "Kankoh SAKITSU, 42, the head priest of a Buddhist temple in Tokyo who organizes expeditions to Guadalcanal"

Or transliterated as Kantō SAKITSU  崎津 寛光 (42 years old), who is 副住職 of 寿仙院 Jusen-in
www.jusenin.com
(仏教 日蓮宗; located at 東京都台東区浅草)

* jūshoku 住職 【じゅうしょく】 (n): "chief priest (of a Buddhist temple)"

(c) "One of the first to join Mr. Sakitsu in 2011 was Atushi Hirano, now a 22-year-old university senior studying to become a schoolteacher. He has been on all four expeditions."
* There is a typo: Atsushi HIRANO  平野 醇.
* Japanese does not have the pronunciation "tu," always "tsu."
* 淳, 醇 (similar in meanings in Japan) both have Chinese pronunciation "jun" and Japanese pronunciation "atsushi."

(d) "one of the last surviving Japanese veterans from the battle, Junshiro KANAIZUMI 金泉 潤子郎. Mr Kanaizumi, 95, was an army engineer who helped build roads in the jungle"
horrible war can be.”

(e) "Mr Sakitsu said most of the 36,000 Japanese soldiers dispatched here were unaware of the strategic objectives for their country’s aggression in the South Pacific. “They just saw themselves as answering the call of their nation,” he said. Some 22,000 Japanese and 7,000 Americans died on Guadalcanal."
* The Guadalcanal island is named after Guadalcanal, Seville.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadalcanal,_Seville
(section 2 Etymology)
* Guadalcanal Campaign
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadalcanal_Campaign
(was the first major [land] offensive [as opposed to earlier naval battles of Coral Sea and Midway] by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan; section 1.1 Strategic considerations)