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Japanese holdout
Japanese holdouts or stragglers were Japanese soldiers who, after the official surrender of Japan after World War II, either adamantly doubted the veracity of the formal surrender due to strong, dogmatic, militaristic principles, or were not aware of it due to the cut-off communications that resulted from the United States island hopping campaign. They would continue to fight occupying forces, and later, local police, years after the war was over.
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