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Title: Today in History | Japanese WWII Soldier Found Hiding in Guam Jungle (1972)
Post by: Admin on Jan 24, 2011, 12:00 PM
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Shoichi Yokoi was a Japanese soldier who went into hiding in the jungles of Guam in 1944 as Allied forces took the island; 28 years later, he was still there. He had hidden in an underground cave, fearing to come out of hiding even after finding leaflets declaring that WWII had ended. In 1972, he was found by hunters and returned to Japan. He was the third-to-last Japanese soldier to surrender after the war, before Hiroo Onoda and Teruo Nakamura. What did Yokoi allegedly say upon his return? Discuss...



Source: Japanese WWII Soldier Found Hiding in Guam Jungle (1972) (http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Shoichi+Yokoi)