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Shōichi Yokoi (横井 庄一, Yokoi Shōichi, 31 March 1915 – 22 September 1997) was a Japanese soldier who served as a sergeant in the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during the Second World War, and was one of the last three Japanese holdouts to be found after the end of hostilities in 1945.
Yokoi's Cave is the cave on the island of Guam in which Imperial Japanese Army Sergeant Shoichi Yokoi hid until he was discovered in 1972. Yokoi and several companions hid in the area for more than 25 years (since Japan's defeat in the 1944 Battle of Guam), two of them dying in the cave; their remains were found in the cave after Yokoi's surrender.
"The Historic 'Napalm Girl' Pulitzer Image Marks Its 40th Anniversary". ABC News. June 8, 2012. Archived from the original on June 9, 2012.. Wong, Julia Carrien (September 9, 2016). "Mark Zuckerberg accused of abusing power after Facebook deletes 'napalm girl' post". The Guardian. "The Story Behind the 'Napalm Girl' Photo Censored by Facebook ...
Ishikawa Mao attended high school in Naha City and was a non-active member of her school's photo club. As a high school student, Ishikawa observed and participated in anti-reversion protests organized by the New Left. Following a falling out with her family in 1972, Ishikawa left home to join a group of student activists in Tokyo. [8]
A former Japanese soldier who suffered sexual harassment while serving in the army said Monday she has accepted apologies from four servicemen in a groundbreaking case that prompted a Defense ...
Onoda initially held out with three other soldiers: one surrendered in 1950, and two who were killed, one in 1954 and one in 1972. They did not believe flyers saying that the war was over. Onoda was contacted in 1974 by a Japanese explorer, but still refused to surrender until he was relieved of duty by his former commanding officer, Major ...
Japanese American soldiers fought in segregated WWII units. A year after signing Executive Order 9066, Roosevelt activated the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. About two-thirds of the Nisei soldiers ...
Diary of a Japanese Military Comfort Station Manager is a book of diaries written by a clerk who worked in Japanese "comfort stations", where the Japanese military trafficked women and girls into sexual slavery, in Burma and Singapore during World War II. The author, a Korean businessman, kept a daily diary between 1922 and 1957.