Spent 18 months there back in the ‘60’s - gorgeous country, lovely people - stories were around that there were still Japanese soldiers up in the hill ready to carry on the fight, but seemed to be more mythology than reality......
Just heard about this story this year.
Really fascinating. Was a village secret until 1997.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Katsuyama_killing_incident
It was reality in the Philippines...