How was Yokoi's hiding place described?
A cave
An underground tunnel
A treehouse
A camouflaged tent
Answer
The answer is an underground tunnel. This is how Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier, hid for nearly three decades after World War II. He emerged from his hiding place in 1974 when a group of Japanese students found him. Onoda had been living in a complex network of caves and tunnels that he had built himself on the remote island of Lubang in the Philippines.
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