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Sep 26, 1997 · Shoichi Yokoi, a Japanese soldier who hid in the jungles of Guam for 27 years rather than surrender to American forces at the end of World War II, died on Monday of a heart attack. He was 82. Mr ...
Mar 2, 2010 · On January 24, 1972, local farmers on Guam discover Shoichi Yokoi, a Japanese sergeant who fought in World War II, still hiding in the jungle—26 years after the official end of the war. Japanese ...
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3 days ago · Shoichi Yokoi (1915 – 1997) was a sergeant in the Imperial Japanese Army, stationed on Guam during the Japanese Occupation of the island during World War II (December 1941 – July 1944). Yokoi is best known as one of the last surviving stragglers from the war, having remained hidden in the jungles of Guam for almost 28 years.
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 ...
Nov 12, 2020 · Nintendo wasn’t Yokoi’s first or even third or fourth choice. He’d applied out of sheer desperation—it wasn’t even an electrical engineering position. His only duty was keeping creaky ...
Jan 24, 2019 · Shoichi Yokoi was 26 when he was drafted into the Japanese Army in 1941. At the time, soldiers were taught that surrender was the worst possible fate for a soldier — so when US forces invaded ...
