The FINAL WWII Soldier to Surrender EVER #shorts

This name was Teruo Nakamura, the final/last Japanese Imperial soldier to surrender ever. Born in Taiwan, Nakamura was not a native Japanese but volunteered for the Japanese army when Taiwan was a colony of Japan. During World War II, he was assigned to Morotai Island, Indonesia, where the Allies quickly defeated the Japanese. Nakamura retreated and survived on the island until 1974. After he was discovered by an Indonesian pilot, he was returned to Taiwan to attempt to reunite with his family. However, his parents were long gone, and his wife had remarried. Unlike the other last two Japanese soldiers to surrender, Hiroo Onoda and Shoichi Yokoi, it was argued that Nakamura was technically not a Japanese citizen, Because of this, the Japanese government refused to give him any benefits for his service. In the following years, Nakamura lived peacefully until his death in 1979.

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[vaa]

Shameful of the Japanese government not to honour or support this loyal soldier. May he Rest In Peace.

[familovegamehub]

Imagine if this was actually Hikaru Nakamura's ancestors though

[silver_was_taken]

aint no way hikaru's ancestor
from chess


Wow it's been 2 months I forgot about this comment lol

11 months ago lol

[passion_redemption]

Ah, Hikaru Nakamura’s great great great grandfather!

[kevinkuok]

Very mean of the Japanese government not to give him any pension benefits for his dedicated service. All based on a nationality 'technicality'.

[jay-fhwp]

It's impossible that there's still alive, base on me they be like 85-90 this days if they even survive and hiding

[AyushKumarSingh]

I think no because no one can survive this long and I love ur channel

[official_BASIC]

As Indonesian that live in Ternate island north malucas i heard story from my auntie that live from morotai island and Nakamura statue in daruba city center of Morotai island that present as memories of nakamura as last samurai island for long time

[Cndr_O]

His Battle IQ was so high even hikaru nakamura got his IQ

[Morsk]

My Great grandfather was a soldier in WW2, he was the radio guy in his division, when he was marching through Nueva Ecija, he met my great grandmother there

[catsupchutney]

Damn it sucks that he was denied benefits.

[crizangeles]

Ang dami Kong natutunan sa mga. Content mo sir thank you so much

[ryanjosephatienza]

Possible, but in the part of Russian land, most of the capture Japanese soldier ends brutal, yung iba sa kanila after cold war na nakauwi, at yung iba di na alam ang kinahantunga

Speaking of "Japanese volunteers" kwento lang sakib before, na mostly hindi daw japanes soldier ang iba na andito sa Pilipinas noon kundi mga Koreans daw at dahil hawak ng Japan ang Peninsula noon ehh eala daw sila magawa kundi sumunod, idk if totoo yun

[jasyillnel]

My man miss yhe amazing decades of the 50s and 60s

[luniz]

He just came out of the jungle and 4 years later he died

edit: its my birthday

[zenobiuskondo]

I am Indonesian. In Borneo, many japanese soldiers died of There was rumor, they eat their own fellow.soldiers corpse to survive. Many witness about this story.
Slim posibility there are still survivor there.
But there was an interesting story, when a plane crash in the jungle of Borneo near Sintang, circa 2 decades
The only survivor, a woman from Java, told a story, during her struggle to survive in the jungle, every night she was accompanied By "people" talk in Japanese language...
She didn't see them, only voice chatting...
Seems the spirits of the deceased soldier staying 😱

[GraspyourAwareness]

When a famous chess person from the US actually has a very cool Japanese-Taiwanese ancestor

[me-name-moques]

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[melaniezenor-kelleher]

When you consider that WWll was almost 80 years ago, I kind of doubt there are any left.

[brotherabe]

Yes. There was a Japanese soldier in our Burmese village who had married one of our villager and refused to go back to Japan after the war. Everyone knows him as the angry Japanese.