He was born in Takeo, Saga Prefecture, Kyushu.
Ichinose was killed while he was in Cambodia, by Khmer Rouge soldiers while attempting to make it to Angkor, at the age of 26.
At the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, a number of articles about Ichinose and his pictures are on display.
The 1999 film One Step on a Mine, It's All Over (Jirai wo fundara sayônara) and the 2003 film Taizo are biographies of Inichose.
[1][2] Tadanobu Asano played the role of Ichinose.