So what'cha been doing the last 60 years?

If this story is true it's just simply amazing.

Two men found in the Philippines 60 years after the U.S. defeated Japan's forces occupying the country say they are former Japanese Imperial Army soldiers.

``We are checking the claim,'' Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi told reporters in Tokyo today. ``If it's true it would be a surprise.''

The men in their 80s, living on the southern island of Mindanao, have asked to return to Japan. The existence of the men was reported to a Japanese war veterans' group by a logger who encountered the two. The men said they feared they would be court-martialed and executed if they returned to Japan, the logger told the veterans' group.

The last World War II-era Japanese soldier to return from the Philippines was Hiroo Onoda in 1974. Onoda spent 29 years in the jungle on the island of Lubang, armed with a rifle, a sword and hand grenades.