Ishinosuke Uwano
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Ishinosuke Uwano | |
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| Born | October 1922 |
| Died | 2013 (aged 90–91) |
| Children | 3[1] |
Ishinosuke Uwano (上野 石之助, Uwano Ishinosuke; October 1922 – 2013) was a Japanese soldier who later became a Soviet and Ukrainian citizen. An officer in the Imperial Japanese Army, he was captured as a Soviet prisoner of war. Declared dead in Japan, he attracted media attention in April 2006 after he was discovered alive in Ukraine, where he lived voluntarily after his release.[2]
