Fusanosuke Gotō
Fusanosuke Gotō (後藤 房之助, Gotō Fusanosuke, November 15, 1879 in Kurihara, Miyagi Prefecture:– July 30, 1924 in Kurihara) was a soldier in the Imperial *anese Army memorialized by the Memorial Statue of the Hakkoda Death March in Aomori, *an.
In January 1902, 210 soldiers in the 5th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion became trapped on the Hakkōda Mountains; this was the start of the Hakkōda Mountains incident. Search parties discovered Gotō. The discovery led to the rescue of the other soldiers. His arms and legs were amputated as a result of frostbite.
After the incident, he retired from the army, returned to his hometown, became a member of the village *embly, and later died from cerebral hemorrhage.
In Jirō Nitta's Death March on Mount Hakkōda: A Do*entary Novel, a semi-fictional account of the disaster, Gotō is portrayed by the character Corporal Etō.