23. Kinoshita Killed Himself After He Was Captured
Awaiting the day when Japanese forces would return to recapture the Philippines and rescue him, Kinoshita struggled to stay alive in the Luzon jungle, unaware that the war was over. He waited for 11 years, until 1955 when he was caught by Philippine police while raiding a villager’s sweet potato patch. He was too ashamed to return to Japan in defeat, so he begged his Filipino guards to kill him. They refused, but a month after his capture, a 33-year-old Noboru Kinoshita managed to commit suicide by hanging himself.