What’s The Story Of The Japanese Soldier In WW2 Who Took 30 Years To Surrender?

Hiro Onoda was perhaps the most dedicated Imperial Japanese Army Intelligence officer of the second world war. In 1944, during WW2 he was sent to Lubang Island in the philippines, where he was ordered to do all that he could to hamper enemy attacks and that under no circumstance was he to surrender. When the war ended in 1945, the only sources that informed him of the war's end were leaflets stating ‘the war ended on 15th August, come down from the mountains!’. Onoda, aware of his instructions to under no circumstance surrender, didn’t trust these leaflets, and refused to leave his post for nearly 30 years, until 1974 when finally Onoda's previous commanding officer, Major Yoshimi Taniguchi, who had long left the military, on hearing the news that Onoda had never surrendered, travelled to Lubang himself and relieved Hiro Onoda of his military duties.

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