[SamAdams76]

Dedicated soldier.

I hope Japan at least gave him a military pension when he was returned.

Thirty years in a tropical paradise. Will be interesting to see how he lived all those years.

[Tell It Right]

I bet the film mentions the atom bomb more than his life in exile. Just about every documentary on Japan in World War II is about the atom bomb and the poor civilian Japanese deaths --- never the many more civilians killed by Japanese soldiers.

If China had any dignity they would have annually invited American Pacific theater vets to a banquet in their honor for freeing China from being Japan's wench.

[Daffynition]

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.

[major_gaff]

Thirty years in a tropical paradise.

That's only half right as it is indeed tropical, but far from a paradise. Having
endured two weeks of Jungle survival training at Cubi Point in the PI, I
can't imagine doing that for 30 years...