# Japanese soldier Fumio Nakahira held out until April 1980

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 19, 2000, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-soldier-fumio-nakahira-held-out-until-april-1980/37554 "2000-10-19T17:11:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![MadHatter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@MadHatter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadHatter)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-soldier-fumio-nakahira-held-out-until-april-1980/37554/1 "2000-10-19T17:11:01Z")

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But I can’t find a site with specific details about this. I have found some with a few references, but I am looking for a detailed covergae of the story. Are there any?

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**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-soldier-fumio-nakahira-held-out-until-april-1980/37554/2 "2000-10-19T17:20:04Z")

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This is one that was handled by the Master:  
[http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000310.html](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000310.html)

Uncle Cecil puts in a link to what appears to be a pretty detailed website. Hope that helps.

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**Author:** ![MadHatter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@MadHatter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadHatter)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-soldier-fumio-nakahira-held-out-until-april-1980/37554/3 "2000-10-19T17:35:45Z")

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But it was from Cecil’s article that I read all about these Japanese stragglers, but there is hardly any info provided about the “1980” guy.

Thanks anyway.

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**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-soldier-fumio-nakahira-held-out-until-april-1980/37554/4 "2000-10-19T20:17:35Z")

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More information [right here](http://www.wanpela.com/holdouts/registry.html).

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**Author:** ![Kyberneticist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kyberneticist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyberneticist)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-soldier-fumio-nakahira-held-out-until-april-1980/37554/5 "2000-10-20T00:53:36Z")

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Didn’t click on the link in the Cecil Column, Mad Hatter?

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**Author:** ![Jorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@Jorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jorge)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/japanese-soldier-fumio-nakahira-held-out-until-april-1980/37554/6 "2000-10-20T06:42:33Z")

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Don’t forget Hiroo Onoda, who gave up in the Philippines in 1974 and wrote a book:

_No Surrender: My Thirty Year War_, published in the US by Harper & Row (though probably out of print now.)