NBC Evening News for Sunday, Jan 14, 1990
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) Report introduced.
(Tokyo: Keith Miller) Return of two Japanese soldiers, Kiyaoki Tanaka and Shigeyuki Hashimoto, who had refused to surrender when World War II ended from jungles of Malaysia where they joined the local Communist insurgents featured; scenes shown. [TANAKA - (thru translator) says we felt a responsibility to carry on Japan's wartime effort, but we lost touch with all our old friends.] Government reported investigating cases of 48 other Japanese soldiers who may still be in hiding.
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