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Kokichi Nishimura : ウィキペディア英語版 | Kokichi Nishimura
was a Japanese soldier and businessman who devoted his post-retirement years to traveling to Papua New Guinea to recover the remains of his former comrades and other Japanese soldiers who died during the Second World War. His life was described in the 2008 book "Kokoda Bone Man" by Australian journalist Charles Happell.〔Pulvers, Roger ('Bone' Man bears lifelong witness to the ugly brute of war April 20, 2008 ) ''Japan Times'' Retrieved on September 17, 2015〕 ==Childhood and prewar== Nishimura grew up in Kōchi Prefecture in Shikoku. He had three siblings, and their father became ill and died when he was nine, and Nishimura worked to help support his family. When he was 11 the family moved to Ota-ku, Tokyo and he worked in a factory by day while studying at a technical school by night. At 15 he became a fitter and machinist in a factory, and began to build a reputation as a trouble-shooter. He returned to Kochi City for his military medical examination in 1940 and was conscripted the following year.〔Happell 2008, pp. 11–18.〕
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