The 'naked hermit' shunned mainstream society and set up base on Sotobanari island in 1989
More pictures and a video at link.
Posted on 06/26/2018 6:46:55 AM PDT by BBell
Hermit who escaped civilization to live naked on a desert island is forced to return to Japan by authorities after 29 YEARS
82-year-old Masafumi Nagasaki 'escaped' civilisation in 1989 for life of solitude
He stayed on rarely visited Sotobanari island — even fishermen don't go there
But Japanese authorities moved him back to mainland after he was found 'weak'
Nagasaki can't return to the island and lives 60km away in a house in the city
Japanese authorities denied a man the chance his wish to die a castaway on an island he called home for three decades.
Masafumi Nagasaki was the only inhabitant of the kilometre-wide Sotobanari island but was forced to return to civilisation after being found unwell by police.
He lived in solitude since 1989 and became known as the 'naked hermit' after being discovered by a traveller who writes about castaways.
Alvaro Cerezo told news.com.au Nagasaki was evicted after someone found him on the island looking 'weak'.
Police were called and he has been taken to live in a government house 60km away in Ishigaki city.
Cerezo added his health is okay and he 'probably only had the flu' when he was found, remarking that Nagasaki's island life is 'over' as he isn't allowed to return.
Nagasaki's story first came to light in 2012.
He shunned mainstream society in the early nineties to set up base on the little island of Sotobanari where there is no running water.
The remote spot, which is just a kilometre wide, is in Japan's tropical Okinawa prefecture and located closer to Taiwan than Tokyo.
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The 'naked hermit' shunned mainstream society and set up base on Sotobanari island in 1989
More pictures and a video at link.
Let the guy go back and die there if he wants.
He looks happy.
“Let the guy go back and die there if he wants.”
Statists; an excellent example. Government knows what’s best....
Remember Dick Proenneke, the Alaska guy that lived alone about 30 years in the wilderness in a cabin that he built.
I also remember the stories in the 1970s of Japanese soldiers cut off on remote Pacific islands who still believed that the war was going on.
How do you say Wilson in Japanese?
Another example of government getting into people’s sh*t...just because it says so.
No phone, no lights, no motor car, not a single luxury.
Weee-soooohnn!
“Wirson”
The beauty, freedom, and solitude are the luxuries.
Exactly. This is a perfect example of freedom versus forced state security. If the man wants to live there until he dies, let him. So what if he would live longer and get better medical care on the mainland being taken care of by the state. It is his choice to refuse that care and die earlier if he wants to.
Still fighting WWII. Never Surrender!
Why the Fucik does he need a GoPro camera?
Does he upload the videos to the web?
Does he watch them on the HD TV?
Think “Walden.”
8 replies before a Gilligan reference. I thought it would be quicker. Good job.
Some enterprising capitalist in the entertainment industry probably thought to make a buck off this guy by using him as a reality star.
I wanted to do a “Japanese soldier on desert island” post, but it’s too long ago nowadays.
Big Brother always taking away people’s freedoms.
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