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After the war, many crews entered the Marine Self Defense Force. Kasuga was also invited, but his dearest wife suffered from severe rheumatism. He gave up his dream to become a naval officer again to nurse his hemiplegic wife, he worked as a lumber dealer. In 1953, he received a letter from an American naval officer not to know.



"   5 November 1953

Dear Commander Kasuga:



Ever since the termination of hostilities between our countries I have been planning and hoping to someday be able to communicate with you in order to learn your version of the incidents which took place between your ship, HIJMS KAMIKAZI and may ship U.S.S. HAWKBILL on evening of the 18th of July, 1945.



   (Scanland writes detailed battle progress)



While you had not succeeded in making a kill, a duty in which each of us had apparently failed, the damage you did to my ship was extensive and we were forced to withdraw from the succeeding forty-eight hours after my attack on KAMIKAZI your ship underwent torpedo attack by no less than five additional submarines, none of these attacks being successful against you. Those of us commanding submarines which attacked you on the 18th, 19th and 20th of July, 1945 have often spoken together of your great skill in the handling of your ship and I have heard many of those officers express the opinion that you were the most skillful destroyer captain whom we had ever encountered throughout the war between our nations. I salute you.



I have learned through inquiry at Singapore that KAMIKAZI was the last Japanese Man-of-War to surrender to the Allied Forces at the end of World War II and that she was subsequently lost by foundering on the Coast of Japan on2 June 1946. KAMIKAZI was indeed a gallant ship and a worthy ...



Very sincerely yours,

<p class="MsoNormal">F. W. SCANLAND

<p class="MsoNormal">Captain, U.S. Navy "