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Asian Theater ★ Deep Cut 1974

Last Japanese Holdout Found in 1974

📍 Morotai Island, Indonesia

Teruo Nakamura, an indigenous Taiwanese conscript, was discovered in a cave on Morotai Island in December 1974 after living alone in the jungle for nearly 30 years. Still wearing Japanese military clothes and fighting a war ended 29 years earlier. Found by Indonesian patrol, repatriated to Taiwan to reunite with his sister.

Sources

Japanese Ministry of Health