[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941: Areas under Allied and Japanese Control, 15 August 1945
The Western Pacific: Japanese Homeland Dispositions August 1945 and Allied Plans for the Invasion of Japan (Operation Downfall)

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The Nimitz Graybook

[PeterPrinciple]

major yoshitsugu akamatsu surrenders

http://www.worldwar2database.com/gallery/wwii1336

After the Okinawa operation, representatives from Tenth Army tried unsuccessfully to induce the Japanese commander on Aka, 26-year-old Major Yoshitsugu Akamatsu, to surrender. The Japanese soldiers and sailors were not as stubborn, and most of them escaped from the island and surrendered.

Long read but good general info here on suicide and his role.

https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/compulsory-mass-suicide-and-the-battle-of-okinawa-by-masaaki-aniya/

In 2005 sues for libel:

http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/13809