Was the last Japanese surrender after WWII in the 1970s?
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Another Wikipedia article might hold your answer. News of Japan's surrender didn't reach everyone all at once (as you'd expect), though it is surprising how many Japanese soldiers were still holding out for years. According to that article, the following number of soldiers surrendered or were killed (by decade):
- 1940s: 85
- 1950s: 34
- 1960s: 2
- 1970s: 4
As you can see, out of the million and a half Japanese soldiers in WWII, a vanishingly small number of them became holdouts after the end of the war.
Earlier this year the New York Times wrote an article on the occasion of the death of one of the last holdouts, Hiroo Onoda, who surrendered in 1974.
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There have been stories that a few Japanese soldiers were still holding out in remote parts, such as in Indonesia, New Guinea, even Guadalcanal, as late as the 1990s. (Of course, these men would be in their late 60s & 70s by that time.) They knew the war was over & simply did not want to be found for any number of reasons.
And a few may have simply "gone native", melted into the local population. This website has a few stories about these last holdouts, including one guy who simply decided to pass himself off as an Okinawan, start a new life, & allow his family to assume he was dead. Said guy claimed there were a number of other former Japanese soldiers who had done the same thing. Who knows? Maybe one or two who had gone native may be still alive? My Dad, an American WWII vet, is still alive in his 90s.
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