[Reported previously]
The 13 sufferes, who were miraculously rescued without any scratch when the Douglas airplane, Aso, of the Japan-Taiwan route made a forced landing on the shore of Uotsuri Island on February 5 of last year (1940), organized the Uotsuri Kai Association as a lifelong commemoration of their miraculous survival. The first meeting of the Association was held in Tokyo February of this year, when the members agreed on a proposal to buy Uotsuri Island and to build both an emergency landing field and a monument for memorial to the disaster there. When one of their representatives, yarn wholesaler, Eitaro HIRAOKA of Tojo-cho, Nara, came to this Prefecture and visited the island's owner, Zenji KOGA of Nishimoto-cho, Naha, Mr. KOGA agreed with the beautiful project of the suffere's group.
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Emergency landing field on Uotsuri Island (Osaka Asahi Shimbun)
| Document title | Emergency landing field on Uotsuri Island (Osaka Asahi Shimbun) |
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| Date created (Western calendar) | June 11, 1941 |
| Date created (Japanese era) | June 11, Showa 16 |
| Author(s) / Editor(s) | |
| Publisher | Osaka Asahi Shimbunsha |
| Name of publication | Osaka Asahi Shimbun dated June 11, 1941, page 7 |
| Content | Survivors from the forced landing on Uotsuri Island on February 5, 1940, by the Douglas airplane, Aso, of the Japan-Taiwan route have organized the Uotsuri Kai Association and have visited the island's owner Zenji KOGA for purchase of the island in order to build an emergency landing field and a monument for memorial to the disaster there. |
| Language | Japanese |
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| Public access | Open |
| Repository | Okinawa Prefectural Library (Japanese Only) |
| Medium | Paper/Microfilm reproduction |
| Copies | 1 |
| Reference No. | S1941061100102 |
| Reference & information | Follow the instruction at the Okinawa Prefectural Library |
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