Dep’t of W.T.F.????
Japanese diplomats are in the Philippines investigating whether loggers found two World War II soldiers hiding out in the jungle.
Japan’s Kyodo News agency said the two may be Yoshio Yamakawa, 87, and Tsuzuki Nakauchi, 83. But the health ministry declined to confirm the report, saying they could not disclose any information until officials have identified them.
There are rumors of 40 more of them who are still hiding. You wonder how many years ago the people who loved them gave up on a scenario like this one. Before you tell me how misplaced my sympathy is, I realize the kind of things they may well have done during the war. These are old men; as with Charles Jenkins, I’m inclined to think that the circumstances of their survival ought to have been punishment enough.