Two years later, when the Australian Forces liberated Sandakan, they found several inmates and civilians stranded at the mental ward of the old hospital in Berhala Island.
Among those rescued civilian was an old Japanese man who was proud of wearing his old Japanese Kamikaze Headband.
He claimed to be a kamikaze pilot who was shot down at the old airstrip years ago but of course, nobody believed him.
And nobody care.
To most of the medical staffs and folks in the Island, he was just another patient suffering from mental breakdown.
Most of the time, the old man with the Kamikaze Headband sat on the edge of the shattered quay, doing nothing.
He just sat down there staring into the open sea.
Whenever he saw an aircraft flying above, he would stand up and gave a smart military salute until it disappeared into the clouds.
In the evening, right on time, he would return back to the hospital kitchen for his dinner and again in the morning for his breakfast.
Although, he walked around with his long wooden samurai sword tucked behind him, he had never hurt anyone.
And never could you find him not wearing his old kamikaze Headband.
Although he might looked old but he moved around with the swiftness of a ninja warrior.
Soon he was called the Ninja man.
Then mysteriously, he went missing and never to be found again.
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THE OLD KAMIKAZE HEADBAND
Historical FictionThis story had its beginning during the Pacific War in 1944, in the eastern part of the British North Borneo territory. It was about a young Japanese Kamikaze pilot who was shot down over the abandoned prisoners ' camp in Sandakan. He was to die wh...
