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Related: About this forumShoichi Yokoi, the Japanese soldier who held out in Guam
23 January 2012 Last updated at 19:30 ET
By Mike Lanchin BBC World Service
It's exactly 40 years since a Japanese soldier was found in the jungles of Guam, having survived there for nearly three decades after the end of World War II. He was given a hero's welcome on his return to Japan - but never quite felt at home in modern society.
For most of the 28 years that Shoichi Yokoi, a lance corporal in the Japanese Army of world War II, was hiding in the jungles of Guam, he firmly believed his former comrades would one day return for him.
And even when he was eventually discovered by local hunters on the Pacific island, on 24 January 1972, the 57-year-old former soldier still clung to the notion that his life was in danger.
"He really panicked," says Omi Hatashin, Yokoi's nephew.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16681636
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ellisonz
Jan 2012
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Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)1. A very interesting article. I remember when they found him.
Now I'm going to have to get his nephew's book...
ellisonz
(27,755 posts)2. I tremble...
...before your library
Something I said?
ellisonz
(27,755 posts)4. I imagine it's massive. lol.
One could get lost in your library!
I kid, I kid.
MADem
(135,425 posts)5. I remember when that happened! I thought, "Damn. That's some serious loyalty." nt