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  2. Shoichi Yokoi - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Yokoi's Cave - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Norio Suzuki (explorer) - Wikipedia

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    Hiroo Onoda. The Japanese media reported that a Japanese imperial soldier, Kinshichi Kozuka, was shot to death on an island in the Philippines in October 19, 1972. Kozuka had been part of a guerilla "cell" originally consisting of himself and three other soldiers; of the four, Yuichi Akatsu had slipped away in 1949 and surrendered to what he thought were Allied soldiers; approximately 5 years ...

  5. Hiroo Onoda - Wikipedia

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    Hiroo Onoda (Japanese: 小野田 寛郎, Hepburn: Onoda Hiroo, 19 March 1922 – 16 January 2014) was a Japanese second lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. One of the last Japanese holdouts , he continued fighting for decades after the war's end in 1945.

  6. List of films about the Japanese American internment

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    The Color of Honor: The Japanese American Soldier in WWII [18] 1987 Loni Ding: Conscience and the Constitution [19] 2000 Frank Abe Days of Waiting: 1990 Steven Okazaki: Dear Miss Breed [20] 2000 Veronica Ko Democracy Under Pressure: Japanese Americans and World War II [21] 2000 Jeffrey S. Betts A Divided Community [22] 2012 Momo Yashima Double ...

  7. Yesterday's Enemy - Wikipedia

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    The group arrives at a small village which is enemy-occupied. After a short but costly battle, the small detachment of Japanese soldiers in the village is wiped out. Among the Japanese dead is a colonel, an unusually high-ranking officer to be with such a small group. The dead officer possesses a map with unknown markings.

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  9. Japanese holdout - Wikipedia

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    Japanese holdouts (Japanese: 残留日本兵, romanized: zanryū nipponhei, lit. 'remaining Japanese soldiers') were soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) and Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the Pacific Theatre of World War II who continued fighting after the surrender of Japan at the end of the war.