Japanese Soldier Found Living in the Jungle
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- CORRECTION: At 0:02 & 1:37 it's 1972. My apologies for the mistake.
In 1972, a Japanese soldier was found alone living in the jungle of Guam. He lived in secrecy for many years until he was discovered by 2 men while out fishing at night.
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It's crazy that there could have been more hold outs that were never found.
I read about this years back and at that moment I realized my brothers and I used to play in the jungle just below the caves. This was back in the early 50's when my Father was stationed there during his Naval career. It was a great playground finding numerous weapons buried throughout the jungle for us to discover.
We were stationed in Japan when a Japanese soldier was found in the Philippines. This is an example of loyalty to one's country to stay hidden and continue to fight for so many years after the war ended. I remember the search team sent from Japan carried megaphones talking into the jungle to find him and convince him the war was over.
shoulda gotten hirohito to announce it to them, they can't disobey an order from the emperor
@@chozer1 Lt. Hiroo Sonoda, the holdout in the Philippines, was an intelligence officer. He believed all the megaphone announcements and dropped leaflets were propaganda.
It is unlikely that the head of state of any country, much less Emperor Hirohito would travel to another nation to plead from a megaphone for a group of four soldiers while his own country, Japan, was being occupied by the one million-strong Allied Forces.
While Hirohito remained Emperor when the war officially ended, the new 1947 Constitution stripped him of all but symbolic power. Most Japanese authority transferred to the new position of "prime minister" when the Allied Forces ended their occupation in 1952. 💁🏻♂️
I have been there during 2002.. Amazing place
Blind, loyalty. He squandered almost his whole adult life for a militaristic government that thought nothing of sending soldiers on suicide attacks.
Or stupidity
I remember my Dad talking in Chamorro on the phone late at night. My Dad then talked with my Mom in the kitchen when I should have been sleeping. My Dad explained to my Mom that his brother Manuel and his cousin Jesus found a Japanese soldier in Guam. My Dad told Uncle Manuel to make sure he eats something, and the authorities should be notified so he can be reunited with his family.
Thats interesting
Manuel De Garcia and Jesus Duenas
Small damn world, huh
So many member in my family named Manuel and Jesus lmao. Us Chamorros can't give up to any other name, huh?
That's nothing. my uncle dropped the atomic bomb on hiroshima. the song, "you drop the bomb on me" is about him.
I worked on Saipan. I crawled through Japanese tunnels. There are multiple stories like this one. So insane
Not Insane..
a+ for discipline.those Japanese dudes were ...... determined to honour their code shall we say.
Huh, I'm from Guam and know about this dude but not as familiar with the whole story. Great presentation, love your channel.
Hide and Seek grand champion.
Hahahahahaha
He beat that Afghan guy
No kidding damn
Strong 2nd place...
Bigfoot is your winner 😅😅😅
😅😂
What true grit is. Salute!
Wow this is a pretty smart & crazy story of survival of the fittest
agreed
yeah thats pretty insane
He was found on Guam. I was stationed on a Ship Homeported at Apra Harbor Guam 1990-1992. USS Haleakala (AE-25)
My Dad was on Guam in the late 1950's when they found a Japanese Soldier living in the jungle. I know it is not as long as this one but there might still be others today, who knows?
truly amazing videos and of course top notch narration as always
so agree with you 👍👍👍
3:48
How could he hear news about the other dudes dying in a flood?
Smoke signals
Just now came across this. Lived on Guam 1963 through 1966. Dad was stationed at Anderson AFB on the north end of the island. We always heard stories about the three Japanese ‘ stragglers ‘ still living in the jungle and that they would steal western garments off clothesline’s then sneak on base to receive bags of rice that the government would give to Guamanians.
*Andersen
@@Tremorwoodworks Thank you . Darn autocorrect !
What was your dad's name. I was stationed there 65-66 in the weather squadron and attached to the Air Rescue squadron.
my daughter lived there for 2018 to 2021..I've heard of this , I always wondered if he ate his 2 friends...the island is beyond gorgeous, and the chammorrans are very proud, peaceful people ❤
He was never captured or surrendered. His honour is completely intact.
He waisted his life hiding in the jungle. The only shame is on the emperor who sent so many young men to die for no good reason.
He stole my grandfathers underwear and clothes at night during the Korean War. As they were the same sized men. He survived on our military food that was taken at night also.
How the fuck you go through all this shit and still manage to get a "happy ending"? what a soldier
Do you really need to used that word !!!! Do you fell really BIG NOW ?????
I remember as a kid when the talked the Japanese solider to give himself up in the Phillipines back in early -mid 70s
I remember hearing a story about a japanese soldier hiding too after a war. He doesnt want to believe that the japanese people want him back to their country and that they lost the war
Its in the Phil
Just wanted to leave a comment saying I love your channel. So refreshing to not hear a robotic voice too.
An inspiration to shut-ins everywhere. :)
In all seriousness though, this must have been such a crushingly lonely existence; unable to come home for fear of being ostracised.
“He got the news that the other 2 had died”…
None of this story makes you suspicious?!
I have visited a reconstruction of the site. As I started down a ladder to enter it, I was assaulted by a cloud of insects. How he endured that escapes me.
Damn fine Soldiers. They should have been given a teaching post at West Point on evasion and stealth.
Too bad about the way they frequently enslaved and horrifically tortured their enemies, sometimes under the guise of performing bizarre medical experiments on them and other times for no discernable reason other than sadism....
@@Scrub_Zeroagree.
There was a funny rumor about him on Guam when I was stationed there. The Guamians in one village told me that they had contact with him. Sometimes giving him clothing and some food. They said he did not want to go home because he had a nagging wife. I thought that was a funny story.
So people on the island knew there were Japanese soldiers still hiding 20 years later?
So now we know why he was begging the two guys to kill him. Makes sense.
awesome narration n story ty for that
Situations like this is how He reminds us of His ever presence in our lives. We need to start listening, today.
So true.. God Almighty was with him and even though he struggles God maintain him.
Thanks for the info! Another great vid!
Great channel. Love the vids. Very informative.
POV: You're from Guam and this showed up in your recommended.
I was born on Saipan in 1958 while my Dad was a Navy Physician there. There were still Japanese coming out of the jungle surrendering. We thought "Hey Tojo, you have not heard gunfire in 13 years, that is what we call a clue". In one instance the Saipanese caught a Japanese soldier stealing from their lobster traps. The snatched him and were ready to kill him but the Navy intervened on his behalf. They should have just turned a blind eye and let the villagers have at him. 13 years after the war there were still a lot of Saipanese natives who remembered the horrific treatment the Japanese heaped on them. One of the natives told my Dad that prior to the US landings there the Japanese hid in the caves along with many natives, presumably to use them as bargaining chips. Apparently, there was an infant who continued to cry so this Japanese soldier bayoneted the infant and then bayonetted the mother and tossed their bodies off a cliff. That kind of brutality is so foreign to western culture it is hard to comprehend.
My Uncle, aunt and cousins have lived on Guam since the mid sixties, with Joe Murphy running the local newspaper. I remember he called my dad, telling him of the capture of this extraordinary soldier and hoping to secure the rights to his remarkable story.
This was awesome, loved the narration!
I've lived by the words of one of those Japanese soldiers (I read this decades ago, before there were any personal computers, so I don't remember which one): "Nature is never boring."
It's where we truly belong, not in war's for the mega rich who'll never put themselves in harms way themselves.
Imagine u did all of this sacrifice for an emperor that you thought was God like.
Yippee 😁😊 it's been FOREVER 😭. Glad you uploaded 🤗
Really good content. Fantastic upload.
Hiroo onoda hiding 30 years after the war ended in the Philippines, the last Japanese soldier surrendered.
Oh quiet, just cause he was the last soldier doesn't mean the Phillipines is better.
@@Akaneblaze1345 That’s not what they were saying… Hiro Onoda is clearly Japanese. Seems like you were too focused on the wrong things
Bridge on the River Kwai - "Madness. Madness."
I have been to the spot on Guam where he was discovered. The most remote part of the island.
Didn't they make a movie about this amazing story?
No mention of his airliner flight back to Japan and what he thought of Japanese society.
Amazing survival story.
They didn't show the newsreel of when he descended from the plane and met his parents after so many years. How did they react? They bowed to each other.
Nice video. Narration is clear.
I arrived in Guam a year after he was finally captured.
I remember this story, I've spent over 60 years hiding in my city😅.
Incredible story ❤
hey already new video nice ty!
definitely interesting great video!
Amazing he built a life for himself in the jungle but how did he get his email?
🐌 mail 🤣
Although the war was over, the war perhaps continues inside his own nightmarish dreamscapes..
love the story!!
I hope he got his decades of military backpay
Those editing skills👌
I never get enough of this channel. Very good quality content my friend, keep it up:')
I think I've heard about him before
I cant imagine hearing about the nuclear explosion and still want to fight .
why this one was allowed to wander, in the forest, for so many years is really quite pathetic.....
This guy and hiroo onoda should be friends
WTF is a "small bonfire"?!? 🙄
I know right
Excited
A real soldier.
True.
How did he hear the news that they died from a flood
Smoke signals
Wow, what a legend.
Second greatest form of dedication I have ever seen in my life. The first greatest form of dedication is the US media protecting Biden.
Nice !
6:30 - so much orbs!
Great job! Promoted!
He must have been very old, plus I am sure his enlistment had run out long ago.
Did he kill anyone while he was hiding after he knew the war had ended?
I saw this on Gilligan’s Island 😂
All those years with no McDonalds
The 3 Japanese in the Philippines lasted 29 years.
Good one That was interesting
I wonder if he got BACKPAY for those years in the Jungle by the Japanese military, and did they Retire him with benefits?
No. What did he do?
he is interacting with hiroo onoda
Hey i was born march 31!!
Who cares
Suggestion for you: Adding fake dust flying around on the videos is very distracting. It's hard to pay attention with all that junk flying around.
its chamorros not chamarros
He must be owed a lot of back pay!
Poor dude born in a time of racism and war... i pity him. I wonder how his 30 years went. At least he wasnt in no more war. Living a solitary life
0:57 that is not the spelling and pronounciation of Chamorros
It's kinda sad that this japanese army member got lost from his company and his out all of these years thinking that the war is going on! Thank God they found him bit confused and scared because he failed his country. And emperor. Now that is being loyal. To the cause. Hopefully he can recover and have a good rest of his life!
What's with the fireflies in the footage? Trying too hard to make it look vintage?
I thought they were flying saucers.😃
Bro is better at hiding than the Vietnamese
The heck is a "shamaro?"
Chamorro (chu•maw•row)
Kensukes kingdom
We can’t even get generation Z to show up to work on time or at all
Hes beyond scared... Scared ...shame
Hero? Hes scared..hero? Shameless...
Уважение.
I knew this guy back in Japan
Liar
@@119jle why you hate ?
Did they say John wick?
Who’s here from a podcast?
The way he pronounces stuff is really disrespectful 😐
I lived on Guam for 3 years and yes, he got a lot of pronunciations wrong.
Personally I would have thrown him in jail served a sentence but given him utmost care humanitarily!!!! Lol
Acting to avoid AWOL?
It’s Chamorros not Chamarros
John wick?
KAMASZUKA!
Estes foram os maiores bandidos da história, tiveram o merecido, foram trucidados.