Sakae Oba

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Sakae Oba was an army captain of the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. After Allied forces captured the island of Saipan, Captain Oba and some 46 soldiers held out in the jungle and carried out occasional raid against American patrols and other objectives. He and his force officially surrendered to the American forces on December 1, 1945, more than three months after the surrender of Japan, after being instructed by his superior. His force was the last organized force of Japan to surrender. After the war, he co-authored the book Oba The Last Samurai with Don Jones, an American servicemen who has stationed on Saipan during the war and has came under attack by Oba's men on one occasion.

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