![]() For four years Abe pursued a curriculum of naval subjects as well as language, mathematics, physics, history and other cultural subjects in the Spartan atmosphere of the samurai. ![]() He was successful in spite of competition that eliminated 39 out of 40 applicants.Ībe’s mother had died when he was 9, and only his father was on hand when he entered the Imperial Naval Academy in April 1933. He subsequently attended Yamaguchi High School, financed by a fund provided by the Bocho Military School, and at age 16, Abe took the entrance examination for the Imperial Naval Academy. As Abe said, ‘My father was not skillful in his business, but he paid earnest attention to the education of his children.’Īfter completing the sixth grade in primary school, Abe passed the entrance examination for the Bocho Military School, which was a private school founded and operated by general officers of the Japanese army in Yamaguchi prefecture. Nevertheless, Abe’s father saved enough to send Abe’s older brother through high school and college. He grew up in a time of worldwide depression, and his father was financially hard pressed to provide for his family. Zenji Abe, one of the pilots who bombed Pearl Harbor, was born in 1916 in a small mountain village in Yamaguchi prefecture on the southern tip of the island of Honshu, the son of a sake brewer. ![]() Lieutenant Zenji Abe: A Japanese Pilot Remembers Close ![]()
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