Letter from the Dead

wind2000 · Oct 20, 2007

Postcard sent from battlefront delivered to Japanese man 64 years later
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TOKYO - A postcard that a Japanese soldier mailed from a Southeast Asian battlefront during the Second World War has reached a recipient in Japan 64 years later, said a university whose student helped deliver it.

Shizuo Nagano, 80, a retiree in Japan's southwestern state of Kochi, received the card Friday by way of Nagasaki, Arizona and Hawaii, said a statement from Mukogawa Women's University.

Nagano's former colleague at a retail store, Nobuchika Yamashita mailed the card in 1943 from Burma, now called Myanmar, a year before Yamashita died at war at age 23, the university statement said.

It said the card had initially failed to reach Nagano's address in Nagasaki, and was instead collected there by an American soldier during the U.S. occupation after Japan's 1945 defeat.

The American kept it at his Arizona home until he died 25 years ago and was kept by his son, who moved to the Hawaiian island of Maui and then gave the letter to a Japanese exchange student he met through his wife, who taught her sewing, the statement said.

"I never would have guessed I could see (Yamashita) again this way ... I'm overwhelmed," Nagano said as he was handed the postcard by the student, who spent two years after her return from Maui trying to find Nagano through the government. The student, Yuko Kojima, is now a sophomore at Mukogawa Women's University.
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http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2007/10/20/4591795-ap.html

Im surprised that he would receive it after so many years.

Taxloss · Oct 20, 2007

Why did the American soldier kept the letter at all actually? -huh

[N] · Oct 20, 2007

wow such a long time, don't know how that man would feel after he got his letter...

MissCheekS · Oct 20, 2007

wow....cool
imagine if its from ur bf in war..and u receive that letter.....so romantic <3

-sorc

xmichelly · Oct 20, 2007

Taxloss said: ↑

Why did the American soldier kept the letter at all actually? -huh
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that's what I was thinking ...
maybe he just forgot about it?

ChilliChidori · Oct 20, 2007

Taxloss said: ↑

Why did the American soldier kept the letter at all actually? -huh
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The answer:
"It said the card had initially failed to reach Nagano's address in Nagasaki, and was instead collected there by an American soldier during the U.S. occupation after Japan's 1945 defeat."

Happily Shizuo Nagano received the card before s/he die. Better late than never.

tree · Oct 20, 2007

it's always nice to read about happy endings =)

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