"Ha ha - you rook in all rong places, never find us!"
This kind of thing has not happened for at least 25 years. Perhaps more details will be known soon on these two Japanese soldiers 'in the service of the Emperor' and how they lived for all that time down there.
Turn them loose on the jihadis.
Took them sixty years to surrender? I can admire that, unlike the French who surrender in 60 seconds! :-)
That feudal nobility of duty thing is impressive, I'll say that for them. Whew!
wierd... just last week I was asking my stepdad when the last such surrender occured...
Pretty remarkable - there were sniper holdouts that preyed on the Filipinos well into the 60's, and a couple of soldiers were found in the early 70's as well.
I remember that episode on Gilligan's Island.
Sushi & Angin sound like they might be trying to cash in ($$$) on a good thing they saw a few years ago. What's the odds AITok?
The link only leaves me with question marks.
AIT....could you ping me to any follow up stories about this....thanks.
Quite a find on your part.
Thanks.
LOL, the babelfish translation of the story on the Japanese website:
Old Japanese soldier: With the Philippine & Mindanao island information of existence? < The Manila Osawa sentence protection > When on the 26th, 2 men of 80 year old generations which are thought as the old Japanese soldier with the Philippine southern Mindanao island asked the interview with the ambassador staff, it made the resident in Philippine Japanese embassy clear. The ambassador staff on the 27th, interviews with 2 people at the hotel of the same island general sun toss city. According to the embassy authorized personnel, information of interview request from another Japanese of the Mindanao island residence was offered to the embassy. You say that 2 people live in Yamanaka who is close to the same city, possess those which show the fact that it is the Japanese soldier. The name 2, the information regarding the original permanent duty station, without knowing the termination of war of the World War II, living, it was it lives in the mosquito net and some kind of state whether, and so on, it is unclear. Everyday newspaper 2005 May 26th 23:05
And John Kerry couldn't take 4 months.
Boy! Do they have a lot of BACKPAY coming!...........
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If true we can count on some great television. Parades, interviews, etc.
Right I thought the guys in the 1980s were flat amazing? If these two are not a hoax, it is beyond amazing.
I do not remember any recent stories indicating that locals in the PI thought someone or something was foraging in their area? Have you seen such stories? The lack of such stories was part of what caused people to think all these soldiers were gone.
Does this mean they won?
To a fault.
The other extreme to the stupid no-right-to-live ding-dongs who ridicule patriotism.