ShortHand: The Last Japanese Soldier in Guam

11 Apr

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When Second World War Soldier Shoichi Yokoi was found by two Guamanian locals in 1972, he’d been hiding in the jungle for almost three decades. Yokoi had survived on nuts, fruits, rodents and the knowledge that it was better to come back to the Japanese Emperor dead, than a coward.

Little did he know that Imperial Japan was no more than a memory in his home country, and his ‘embarrassing’ return sparked praise from some, and shame from others.

This is the tale of ‘The Last Japanese Soldier in Guam’.

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