Did not know this, the last Japanese to surrender in WW2 was 1974.

[texas1928]

He was back in the jungle and never heard the war was over.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. They were pulling those guys out for years.

[Zuni]

2. there were Japanese soldiers in the Phillipines

that kept killing Filipinos for 20 yrs after the war ended :crazy:

[texas1928]

3. As the history channel put it he was the longest. at 29 years

I just can not beleive that. That is a fanatic. Or one honorable soldier to stick to orders that long.

[short bus president]

4. don't forget

the roving Japanese submariners, like the one who ended up on Gilligan's Island.

[texas1928]

5. Yeah but that was in the 60's so they were not as recent as this guy.

:P