This soldier made a trap from wild reeds for catching fish, and dug himself an underground shelter - for 28 YEARS after WWII. 9News
For most of the 28 years that Shoichi Yokoi, a lance corporal in the Japanese Army, was hiding on remote parts of the Pacific island, he refused to believe that Japan had lost World War II after the conflict ended in 1945.
Japan occupied the island during the war and most of its 22,000 troops were killed when US troops recaptured the island in 1944.Yokoi made a trap from wild reeds for catching fish.His memoirs reveal that after his last two surviving companions died in 1964, he remained desperate to survive and clung to the hope of rescue.The underground shelter Shoichi Yokoi built from bamboo poles.
Upon his return, Yokoi, who had been reported as killed in action, was dumbfounded by the changes that had occurred since he left on a military transport more than a quarter-century earlier.
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