Talk:Japanese holdout

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I'm omitting this paragraph:

In 2005 two men were discovered living on Mindanao Island in the Philippines who were believed to be Japanese soldiers left behind after World War II. Their claims are being investigated. However it seems likely that they were aware of the end of the war, but chose not to return home for other reasons, possibly because they feared punishment for desertion.

Last edited by Brandon Ngai, April 22 2006

It’s a fake story. You can check the external link on that article or visit this history thread:

http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=78498

Apparently, someone “recognized” the Mindanao resident as a lost Japanese soldier and the news media hyped the story up or got excited by the story because they are still missing soldiers in WW2. Then when they did a background check on said person when they went over there, they realized it a terrible mistake. It’s probably similar to stories being hyped up about American P.O.W.’s from the Vietnam War and Korean War rumored to be still alive in the 1980’s and early 1990’s. Even though the Vietnamese government is more open in helping American veterans and families find any missing servicemen. Vietnamese are missing a lot of their own people also both civilians and military. --James 23:33, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

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Good call!

-Brandon

[edit] Fumio Nakahira?

Can anyone find a news story or anything about this guy? All I can find on the Internet is the same one-sentence line repeated everywhere. The BBC story on the hoax mentioned above says that the last holdouts were found in the 70's, which suggests that this may have been a hoax or something as well, or possibly not a real holdout like the ones with the Thai rebels. KarlM 05:49, 25 March 2007 (UTC)