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TIL that Ishinosuke Uwano, a WWII Japanese soldier who had been missing since 1958, was found alive in Ukraine aged 83. He’d been declared dead in 2000. He hadn't visited Japan in 60 years and had to enter the country on a Ukraine passport.

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