Ishinosuke Uwano

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Ishinosuke Uwano (上野 石之助, Uwano Ishinosuke^?, born October 1922) is a former soldier in the Japanese Imperial Army who came to media prominence in April 2006 after it was found that he had been living in Ukraine for six decades after the end of World War II. He had been officially recorded as dead in official Japanese databases.

[edit] See also

• Japanese holdout

[edit] External links

• "Japanese WWII soldier found alive", BBC News, 18 April 2006
• "Missing WWII vet returns to Japan", BBC News, 19 April 2006
• "Mr Uwano comes back from the dead to say 'Good Day'", The Times, 20 April 2006
• "Japanese WWII veteran found in Ukraine has reunion with family", The Associated Press in USA Today, 20 April 2006