| spydr1222 | 14 Jun 2012 12:12 p.m. PST |
when did the last japanese soldier surrender?
at work we were talking about it and none of us could remember?one said the 1950's,1970's and 1980's???and was he an officer?
robert
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| Dr Jeckyll | 14 Jun 2012 12:16 p.m. PST |
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| Timbo W | 14 Jun 2012 12:16 p.m. PST |
Last confirmed in 1974, but rumours in the 80s and 90s according to Wiki link |
 Mserafin  | 14 Jun 2012 12:50 p.m. PST |
He was a member of the Very Old Guard… Rimshot, please! |
 DeanMoto | 14 Jun 2012 1:15 p.m. PST |
Dang! I was stoked to think a Japanese soldier served in the Napoleonic Wars – there goes my dream of reenacting the period… |
| Dn Jackson | 14 Jun 2012 2:03 p.m. PST |
From what I recall…there were two holdouts that surrendered in the early 80s. They were not soldiers, but part of a labor unit. After the war they ended up with communists rebels in Malaysia and just stayed until finally coming in on their own. |
| 14Bore | 14 Jun 2012 4:20 p.m. PST |
And I was dreaming of a Samurai Division for my 1812 Russians |
| zoneofcontrol | 14 Jun 2012 6:28 p.m. PST |
Was the Banzai Charge ever effective against the Infantry Square? |
| dmebust | 14 Jun 2012 6:39 p.m. PST |
No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War by Hiroo Onoda is a great read. Details his survival skills and encounters as he continued on with WW2. Wiki indicates he is still alive and kicking! Now that is saying something. |
 R Mark Davies | 14 Jun 2012 7:12 p.m. PST |
If memory serves, there was a Japanese-Russian clash on Hokkaido in 1809 or thereabouts… |
| Robert le Diable | 18 Jun 2012 7:05 a.m. PST |
I remember hearing of, and then reading about, Hiroo Onoda (nickname was "Hironko"), at the time. As part of the Wikipedia article, it is stated that he was "relieved of duty by his former commanding officer"; as far as I remember, that officer was actually brought to the island to order Onoda to "step down". |
| number4 | 27 Jun 2012 6:58 p.m. PST |
This could spawn a whole new Osprey series…. Napoleon's Samurai, Kamikaze of the Guard etc. etc…… |
Karpathian  | 27 Jun 2012 8:37 p.m. PST |
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| ThePeninsularWarin15mm | 01 Jul 2012 4:26 p.m. PST |
@DeanMoto, Oh come on, you could always dress as a Mameluke! |
