[Milsurplus] FW: Shoichi Yokoi, last Japanese soldier on Guam

[Hubert Miller]

Okay, off topic, but I think some reader here will be interested.
I happened to be up late again last night and listening to BBC radio when I heard an interesting
short 10 minute history program on the last Japanese soldier on Guam, Shoichi Yokoi. I first 
heard about this case in 1972, when in Seattle at the Japanese community Bon Festival I bought
a book, "28 Years in Guam Jungle", printed by Asahi Shinbun newspaper, Tokyo. I thought this
small book with numerous photographs was the definitive book on this case, but from the BBC
program I learned that Yokoi's cousin, who speaks English, wrote in 2009 his own book on his
uncle. In the program both Yokoi and his cousin are heard.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00myrzs
Guam has this interesting history that it had both a U.S. and a Japanese military holdout hiding
during the occupation by the other side. George Tweed, the "Ghost of Guam", hid out for 2 years
seven months in a cave on the coast, until rescued by ship of the U.S. invasion fleet.
-Hue Miller