Robert Ballard recounted in a lecture about encounters with Jap soldiers and natives still living in the hills near the “The Slot,” where the boat was found.
Personally, it has taken me a lifetime to stop hating the Japs. They killed my uncle Mike [US Army], whom I never had the chance to know, DOW - Died of Wounds on Luzon.
It’s life.
That was the first major WW2 Pacific battle the U.S. was involved in and it was a nasty one. I recently read a book on it.