Character profile
Masuda
Biography
Lieutenant Colonel Matsuda is an Imperial Japanese Army officer posted to Germany to study aeronautics with the Luftwaffe. In March 1945, he begins the journey home aboard U-1324 under Captain Wentzel Ahbe. Sociable with the crew, Matsuda teaches them shogi and plays with them during the voyage toward Batavia.
Story spoilers
Near Batavia, a U.S. Navy patrol attacks U-1324 with depth charges and drives it nose-first into the ocean floor. With escape impossible and unwilling to face capture, Matsuda dies by seppuku.
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