30 Years in the Jungle
Channel: Syncopea
Date: 2024-02-15

30 Years in the Jungle
In 1943, the Taiwanese-born Teruo Nakamura joined the Japanese Imperial Army and was stationed on Morotai Island in modern-day Indonesia. Soon after his arrival, Allied forces attacked the island, and Nakamura fled into the jungle rather than surrender to the troops. Though he eventually lost radio communications with his commanders, he refused to believe that the war was ending — and stayed on the island for 30 years. When he was finally discovered in 1974, Nakamura returned to society to learn that his wife had remarried another man and that the Japanese government wouldn't pay out his full pension because he wasn't a Japanese citizen.
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