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The Man in the Jungle

The Second World War ended in August 1945. In 1972, 27 years after the end of the war, a Japanese soldier,
called Shoichi Yokoi, was found by two hunters on the island of Guam In the Pacific Ocean. Shoichi knew
that the war was over but he was afraid that, if the Americans caught him, he would be killed.

He had lived in the jungle all those years, eating fruit, nuts and small animals such as rats and frogs. He had
been a tailor before he became a soldier, so he made himself clothes from the bark of tree with a small pair
of scissors. He lived in a cave and only went out at night. He had never heard of television or the atomic
bomb, he couldn't believe that he could return to Tokyo in only five or six hours.

Doctors who studied him in a Japanese hospital said that he was very healthy but needed to eat more salt.

But Shoichi found that life was difficult in modern Japan. He did not want to read newspapers or watch
television. “Television is very noisy,” he said. He saw young men with long hair and girls wearing trousers.
“All of this is like a dream to me,” he said. “I am only afraid that I will wake up.”