Does anybody know anything about what happened to this soldier after he went home ? In 1980, the last Japanese soldier of World War Two, Captain Fumio Nakahira, was discovered on Mt. Halcon, Mindoro Island, Philippines. During the previous 35 years, Captain Nakahira had survived alone, serving his Emperor and believing that the War had not yet ended. This website is pretty good regarding the list of known holdouts from the Pacific theater Japanese Holdouts: Registry