From the Peoria JournalStar:
Two men believed to be former soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army have been found on Mindanao Island in the southern Philippines, the Japanese Embassy in Manila has reported.
The embassy sent three officials to the southern Mindanao city of General Santos on Friday to meet the two men.
It was not immediately known if the two men were aware that the war was over.
Reuters also has the story.
The last known Japanese straggler from the war was found in 1975 in Indonesia.
The timing of this story on Memorial Day weekend just serves to remind us of the shrinking number of WWII veterans, not just here, but everywhere.
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