It is pretty amazing how long this guy was able to hold out: In this March 1974 file photo, Hiroo Onoda, wearing his 30-year-old Japanese imperial army.
Tokyo (CNN) — A Japanese soldier who hunkered down in the jungles of the Philippines for nearly three decades, refusing to believe that World War II had ended, has died in Tokyo. Hiroo Onoda was 91 years old. In 1944, Onoda was sent to the small
TOKYO – Hiroo Onoda, the last Japanese imperial soldier to emerge from hiding in a jungle in the Philippines and surrender, 29 years after the end of World War II, has died. He was 91. Onoda died Thursday at a Tokyo hospital after a brief stay there.
Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese soldier who stayed in the Philippine jungle after World War II ended, died today. On May 18, 1974, NBC News' Tom Brokaw and Don Oliver looked at Onoda's life back home in Japan, his hero
Hiroo Onoda, an Imperial Japanese Army officer who remained at his jungle post on an island in the Philippines for 29 years, refusing to believe that World War II was over, and returned to a hero's welcome in the all but unrecognizable Japan of 1974