World War 2 veterans 'hiding in jungle since 1945'
Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 3:53 pm
It is an astonishing story, if it is true. Sixty years after the end of World War 11,two Japanese veterans have reportedly emerged from the Phillppines jungle, declaring they wish to go home but are afraid of being court-martialled.
According to one version, the pair aged in their mid 80s had no idea that the war was over until they came down from the thickly forested mountains near General Santos, a city on the island of Mindanao, While the Japanese media were in a frenzy yesterday, diplomats in the Phillippines were expressing caution.
Officals from the Japanese embassy in Manila flew south to meet the men, but as night fell the two octogenarians had yet to show up at the designated hotel in General Santos.
Government sources in Tokyo named the men in the latest reports as Yoshio Yamakawa (87) and Tsuzuki Nakauchi (85) of the 30th Division of the Imperial Army.
Irish Independent News
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According to one version, the pair aged in their mid 80s had no idea that the war was over until they came down from the thickly forested mountains near General Santos, a city on the island of Mindanao, While the Japanese media were in a frenzy yesterday, diplomats in the Phillippines were expressing caution.
Officals from the Japanese embassy in Manila flew south to meet the men, but as night fell the two octogenarians had yet to show up at the designated hotel in General Santos.
Government sources in Tokyo named the men in the latest reports as Yoshio Yamakawa (87) and Tsuzuki Nakauchi (85) of the 30th Division of the Imperial Army.
Irish Independent News
www.unison.ie/