http://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/06/japanese-soldier-fought-ww-ii-decades-after-its-over/ The Neat Side of the Web Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:09:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/06/japanese-soldier-fought-ww-ii-decades-after-its-over/comment-page-1/#comment-24432 Josiah St. John Fri, 07 Jul 2006 07:13:11 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2006/07/06/japanese-soldier-fought-ww-ii-decades-after-its-over/#comment-24432 I know you have a link to the Wikipedia page here, but it's worth repeating how they finally got him to come out of the forest. He refused to leave unless given a direct order by his commanding officer. His commanding officer had long since retired and was running a bookshop in Japan. So at great expense, the Japanese government located and actually flew his commanding officer out to the Philippines to issue the order to surrender. It really happened, but I can scarcely believe it! I know you have a link to the Wikipedia page here, but it’s worth repeating how they finally got him to come out of the forest. He refused to leave unless given a direct order by his commanding officer. His commanding officer had long since retired and was running a bookshop in Japan. So at great expense, the Japanese government located and actually flew his commanding officer out to the Philippines to issue the order to surrender. It really happened, but I can scarcely believe it!

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