GonerNL, on 13 September 2019 - 08:12 AM, said:
"Almost everything you have read about this legendary fighter ace is either false or exaggerated. And you can pin the blame on writer Martin Caidin who took enormous liberties with the truth."
I hope that's right, as I hate to think of this guy as a regular visitor to a Japanese WWII military brothel, where all girls were Korean, Chinese, Indonesian and even Western women forced into prostitution ...
Then how about this one, told by the multiple fellow pilots who were present:
“Another story involves a wedding ceremony for a fellow pilot. Traditional Japanese weddings are not raucous parties like in the West, but rather solemn occasions in which the bride and groom exchange ritual cups of sake and a Shinto priest presides over the ceremonies. Into this silent, sedate crowd, Akamatsu arrived late, stomping into the hall stark naked and ‘four sheets to the wind’. He had fashioned a ‘grass’ skirt out of torn strips of newspaper which he had tucked into the waist string of his fundoshi (underwear), and he proceeded to stumble through his version of a hula dance, then promptly keeled over in a corner and started snoring in a deep sleep. The family and relatives of the bride were speechless with shock. As for the invited group of IJN pilots, all buddies of the groom, and all quite familiar with Akamatsu’s occasional outbursts of outrageous behavior, it was all they could do to keep a straight face and stop from bursting out in uncontrollable laughter.”
...and regarding what you wish to imagine, go ahead and make a saint out of him. But rest assured all of them used Comfort women - and all got away with it 
Discontinued, on 13 September 2019 - 09:00 AM, said:
So in essence Akumatsu was the James Hunt of his day,
You nailed it 
Edited by zen_monk_, 13 September 2019 - 09:25 AM.