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    Story of Japanese soldier on Guam who thought WW2 had not ended

    And here is the interesting story of the Japanese soldier that didn't know the war was over and they finally caught him after 28 years.
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    Yokoi's discovery in 1972 stunned the Japanese public, who had long assumed the last of the emperor's imperial troops were dead or accounted for. More than 5,000 flag-waving men, women, and schoolchildren turned out on an overcast winter afternoon to cheer him when he finally returned to Tokyo. Seventy million more, the equivalent in percentage terms to 200 million Americans today, watched on live television as he shuffled to a microphone set up on the airport tarmac and delivered another shocker.

    He told his countrymen he was ashamed to have come home alive...

    Shoichi Yokoi’s survival story: How Japan responded when he reappeared.

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    That is a fascinating story!

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    Remember hearing about that long ago. The Japanese soldiers were tenacious

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    There have been other holdouts in hiding that were found over the decades. Seems to me there was one found back in the '80s.

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