Minoru Ohye, 86, is a rare veteran: He served in both the Imperial Japanese Army, fighting the Soviet Red Army during World War II, and in the U.S. military during the Korean War.
His parents, both Japanese, moved to the United States because they wanted him to have dual citizenship, he told The Japan Times in Tokyo on Monday morning.
He had come to Japan to meet his only brother, Hiroshi Kamimura, 84, after a separation of some 60 years.