Ishinosuke Uwano

Ishinosuke Uwano (上野 石之助, Uwano Ishinosuke; October 1922 – 2013) was a soldier in the Japanese Imperial Army and a prisoner of war in the Soviet labour camps, who came to media prominence in April 2006 after it was found that he had been living voluntarily in Ukraine for six decades after the end of World War II. He had been recorded as dead in official Japanese records.

Uwano died in 2013.