Yokoi Shoichi died

Shoichi YOKOI, a former Japanese soldier who made a dramatic return to Japan on Jan. 24, 1972, after living in the jungles of Guam for more than 26 years without knowing World War II had ended. He died of a heart attack at a Nagoya hospital on Sept. 22. He was 82.

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