'Climb Mount Niitaka!'

A famous (translated) quote from six decades ago.

Was there any significance to “Mt. Niitaka?” Is that an actual mountain or just a code word? What does “Niitaka” mean? If it’s just a code word, a metaphor that somehow relates to the USA (or more specifically, Hawaii), such as, oh, if they had attacked Florida “Squeeze the orange dry!,” or if they attacked Wisconsin “Cut the cheese!”

[url=“http://www.peakware.com/encyclopedia/peaks/yushan.htm”]Mount Niitaka[/url, also called Mount Yu, Mount Morrison or Yu Shan is the highest peak in Taiwan. Japan controlled Taiwan back in those days.