So I randomly picked up a book about this Japanese soldier that never surrendered after WWII ended (the first photo was taken a few days after he surrendered in 1974!). He was trained as an intelligence officer and was ordered to stay on Lubang Island in the Philippines no matter what. The book itself is very short (I read it in an afternoon) and is a very fast, good read.
It is an incredible story about a man's loyalty amidst jungle warfare with locals, maintaining his own health as well the health of the two men that stayed with him (the other photo is actually him now living in Japan) and an unwavering intellectual commitment to never surrender in the face of what he thought were continual efforts by the Allies to trick him out of the jungle.
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