WI: Japanese Guerilla War After August 1945

The plan was for everybody able to fight the americans, even just with bamboo spears, and then commit mass suicide. For reference, see Saipan.
 
Uh, correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't there IJA holdout that lasted until the 70's IOTL?
Yeah, but that wasn't really a guerrilla war. It was a very small number of stragglers living in the jungle and fighting with villagers and the police. The last known Japanese holdout surrendered in December 1974, although there have been rumors of holdouts that have lasted for longer.
 
Uh, correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't there IJA holdout that lasted until the 70's IOTL?

They weren't really actively fighting.

Onoda spent most of his time hiding, although he did some small scale attempts like burning rice, and did get into a few shootouts with the police and people looking for him.

Nakamura/Palalin/Lee Guang-Hui was discovered by accident and was basically living out on his own.

Yokoi, as best as I can tell, just trying to stay alive. Although he did try to kill the two fishermen that found him.

There's no proof Nakahara Fumio actually survived until the 1980s.

Shigeyuki Hashimoto and Kiyoaki Tanaka are a weird case.
They're technically Imperial Japanese soldiers who didn't surrender until 1990, but after 1945 they joined a Malaysian Communist group that was fighting to keep the British out, and didn't surrender until 1989.
 

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And the holdouts were probably not doing a full on guerilla war. If they had, their body count would have been significantly higher and tbe authorities would have taken notice and action.
 
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