Japan - Korea - North Korea
Feb. 02, 1972 - Hideaway Japanese soldier comes back home after 28 years in jungle: Shoichi Yokoi, the 56-year-old former sergeant of the defunct imperial Japanese army returned to his homeland 10 days after he had emerged from 28 years of hiding in the jungles of Guam and 31 years after he left japan to do his military service. photo shoichi yokoi, bursts into tears on returning to his homeland, at Tokyo airport. Too weak to walk yokoi was placed is a wheelchair on leaving the 8 plane which had brought him from Guam
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13279564
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