Crazy stuff, hot off the Yomiuri presses: 83-year-old Ishinosuke Ueno, who was in Sakhalin at the time of Japan’s surrender in 1945, just turned up living (with a family) in the Ukraine, despite being presumed dead by the Japanese government. He plans to visit his relatives in Iwate Prefecture in a couple of days.

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