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English: Death poem by Kuroki Hiroshi, a Japanese soldier who died in a submarine accident on September 7 1944.

Text reads 「国を思ひ死ぬに死なれぬ益良雄が　友々よびつ死してゆくらん」

Kuni wo omoi shinu ni shinarenu masurao ga, tomodomo yobitsu shishite yukuran

This brave man, so filled with love for his country that he finds it difficult to die, is calling out to his friends and about to die.
Source http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~un3k-mn/kai-kuroki.htm (in japanese)
Author Kuroki Hiroshi

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