Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.

My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.

As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices.

What you may not know is that the BBC makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars,

poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples.

If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds. This is the Witness History Podcast on the BBC World Service.

I'm Mike Lanchin and now a program from our archives.

To coincide with the Tokyo Olympics all this week we're bringing you programs from Japan's recent history.

Today we're going back to January of 1972,

when a lone Japanese soldier was found hiding in the jungle on the Pacific Island of Guam.

He'd been living there for almost 30 years since the end of World War II, unaware that the conflict had ended. I spoke to his nephew and

biographer for witness history in 2012.

It's January 24th, 1972, almost 30 years after the end of the Second World War, but on the

tiny Pacific Island of Guam, a lone Japanese soldier suddenly comes face to face with local hunters.

Clearly he was panicked because if he was taken a prisoner of war, that's the greatest shame for the Japanese soldier.

And actually, in fact, he cried, shouting that, please kill me.

Omehattashin is the nephew of Shoichi Yokoi, a lance corporal in the Imperial Japanese

army who spent 28 years hiding in the jungles of Guam.

Based on his uncle's own writings writings as well as testimonies of those who found him that

day, Ome has pieced together Yokoi's dramatic story.

He was wearing his handmade-made clothing from hibiscus fibers and he was carrying eard traps in a bag

which he made from also from the hibiscus trees. Somehow he took the shortcut to his place of

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