By KATSUHISA SAITO/ Staff Writer
December 22, 2021 at 07:30 JST
Mitsuo Fuchida, left, poses with Jacob DeShazer, author of the religious tract that led him to convert to Christianity, in April 1950. (From “Shinjuwan Kogeki So-Taicho no Kaiso” (Memoirs of the head commander of the Pearl Harbor attack), a book in the Kodansha Bunko paperback series)
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