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At a meeting some time ago on the south side of Chicago, a young fellow related a story about a newspaper headline he had once read that stated: "Japanese soldier surrenders after twenty-five years on deserted island." Apparently a U.S. warship had sighted a person on a deserted island in the south Pacific long after the end of WWII. They sent a small boat ashore to rescue the person only to find that he had retreated into a cave on the side of a mountain. Realizing he was a Japanese soldier and was hostile and armed, they had to send ashore an interpreter to persuade him to surrender. After convincing him that the war was over, they took him home and reunited him with his family and friends. The newspapers had shown photos of him coming down from his hideaway, haggard, undernourished, and barely clothed. Then there were photos of him back in Japan, cleaned up, shaved, with a haircut and new suit, with his family and friends.