Shōichi Yokoi (横井 庄一, Yokoi Shōichi, 31 March 1915 – 22 September 1997) was a Japanese soldier who served as a sergeant in the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during the Second World War, and was one of the last three Japanese holdouts to …

2022年1月21日 · According to historian Robert Rogers, Yokoi was one of around 5,000 Japanese soldiers who refused to surrender to the Allies after the Battle of Guam, preferring life on the lam to the...

2022年1月31日 · Shoichi Yokoi, a former sergeant in the Imperial Japanese Army, at Tokyo’s airport in 1972, after hiding in Guam for 28 years. On the right, in glasses, is Japanese Health and Welfare Minister ...

2012年1月24日 · For most of the 28 years that Shoichi Yokoi, a lance corporal in the Japanese Army of world War II, was hiding in the jungles of Guam, he firmly believed his former comrades would...

On January 24, 1972, two hunters came across a man setting fishing traps in a river near Talofofo Falls in Guam. The man was later identified as Shoichi Yokoi, a Japanese soldier who had been...

2024年3月26日 · Imperial Japanese Army sergeant Shoichi Yokoi fled into the jungles of Guam when American forces recaptured the island in 1944 — and didn't emerge until he was finally discovered 28 years later. On Sept. 2, 1945, World War …

Shoichi Yokoi (1915 - 1997) was a sergeant in the Imperial Japanese Army, stationed on Guam during the Japanese Occupation of the island during World War II (December 1941- July 1944). Hid in Guam jungles.

1997年9月26日 · Shoichi Yokoi, a Japanese soldier who hid in the jungles of Guam for 27 years rather than surrender to American forces at the end of World War II, died on Monday of a heart attack. He was 82.

Shoichi Yokoi lived for another 25 years after his return to the world before passing away on September 22, 1997, at the age of 82. He was one of the final three Japanese holdouts to be found after the war and represents the indomitable spirit of the Japanese military.

In February 1943, Shoichi Yokoi arrived on Guam from Manchuria, a 28-year-old sergeant assigned to the Japanese naval garrison defending the island. In February 1972, Yokoi departed from Guam, 56 years old and in all likelihood the Emperor's last soldier of World War II.