Sergeant Terajima was a Japanese American man who served as a sergeant in the U.S. Army during World War II. He joined the Japanese Linguist Program to aid in the war effort.
On The Terror: Infamy, Sergeant Terajima was portrayed by Taiga Seiya.
History[]
He was part of a group of translators at the Military Embarkation Center in Long Beach, California who were preparing to ship out to Guadalcanal to relieve Chester Nakayama and Arthur Ogawa, who were the only two translators working there at the time. He was the butt of the jokes of a couple of the other translators, one of which asked him if he would "take one for Uncle Sam" so that they would name a pagoda for him. When he gave no reply, the teasing translator chuckled, saying that he used to be fun.
Unbeknownst to any of them, Terajima had been possessed by Yuko Tanabe, a bakemono and a yurei, an undead shape-shifting spirit. As Terajima walked with the group to travel to Guadalcanal, his bones cracked strangely, he had a strange look in his eyes, and he carried a bag that appeared to be bloodied at the bottom.
When the group arrived at Guadalcanal, the teasing translator from before asked if he was coming with them before heading off. Terajima instead stood strangely at the edge of one of the Jeeps. He unzipped the bag and examined its contents: a bloodied human corpse. He then zipped the bag back up. At some point, Tanabe transferred herself to Arthur Ogawa, freeing him of her influence. ("Shatter Like a Pearl")