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The story that in the negotiation Yamashita thumped the table with his fists to intimidate for the Malaya Command to surrender is widely circulated but by 1991 at the latest it turned out to be a fiction. After declaration of death by hanging at the military tribunals in Philippines in 1945 Yamashita was interviewed by a Japanese journalist and mentioned the story in it.[78] He denied clearly the story that he coerced and/or intimidated Parcival and asked the journalist to correct the fiction to the truth.[78] Besides we have another testimony by Kazushi Sugita, who was a staff officer of intelligence in the Japanese 25th Army at the time of Malayan campaign. [79] Sugita, the standing figure with moustache next to Yamashita in the photograph, served as a translator in the negotiation. Masayasu Hosaka [ja], the well-known Japanese writer specializing to the history in wartime Japan of Shōwa period, interviewed him in 1991.
In the interview Sugita also denied the story. According to him Yamashita asked Parcival a question if Malaya command surrendered unconditionally, on the other hand, Parcival repeatedly wanted for stationing 1,500 British soldiers to prevent from pillaging without answering it.[78] Because Parcival did not reply to his question Yamashita finally asked Parcival to answer it in Yes or No to make the discussion clear.[78]
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