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Hiroo Onoda was born on March 19, 1922. He was trained as an intelligence officer and the September 17, 1944 was sent to Lubang Island in the Philippines. Onoda orders were to make a guerrilla war against the Americans, who were ready to invade the island, especially attacking the airstrips and docks to prevent them being used by the enemy.
Before starting the mission, Major Yoshima Tanigushi, clearly told his soldiers:
You are not allowed to commit suicide. Its mission can last three years, five years, but whatever happens, we will pick you up. Until then, whenever you have a soldier in charge is their leader. Under no circumstances can take their own lives.
With these words spoken by his superior officer, Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda was fired before leaving the Philippine island of Lubang as responsible for a special commando unit belonging to the Intelligence Service of the Imperial Japanese Army. Never have suspected it would remain in combat for more than 30 years.
Fate had it that the island was taken shortly after arriving at her and most members of his unit killed, except your own Onoda and three soldiers, with whom he went into the jungle ready to resist as long as it necessary. Orders received were clear: it should never give up, and although the first news was about the end of the war was in October 1945 in a pamphlet he found, his strict sense of duty prevented him surrender to the enemy.
The group survived on what little fruit they gathered to hunt any animals getting trying not to get noticed and, above all, changing very often the location of their camp to avoid detection. Later that same year, hundreds of pamphlets written by General Tomoyuki Yama****a were dropped by allied forces from the air. They could read that the guerrilla group was authorized to lay down their weapons, but it was impossible to verify the accuracy of the written word, Osono decided to continue the fight.
However, the finding of such sheets permeated the thinking of Yuichi Akatsu, a member of the group that split from the rest in September 1949 and ended up surrendering in 1950. This created a security problem that remained, which caused them to do more and more elusive.
The year 1952 he made another attempt to locate the command, to which were launched, also from the air, letters and photos of their relatives urging them to surrender, but the three soldiers came to the conclusion that all this was a deception. In 1953 Shoichi Shimada was shot in the leg during a shootout with a group of local fishermen, and May 7, 1954 was killed in a clash with police still looking for.
On October 19, 1972, fell Kozuka Kinshichi shot while burning in an action of sabotage, the rice harvested by local farmers. Onoda left alone since then, and remained so until 1974 when, Norio Suzuki, a Japanese university student who had dropped out of school to "find Lieutenant Onoda, a panda, and the abominable snowman, in that order," landfall on the island getting found shortly after the lieutenant and make friends with him. After this, Suzuki was the intention of getting back together with Onoda to his country, but the latter kept his ground, not give up until they received the order directly from a superior.
Suzuki returned to Japan with photographs of himself with Onoda as proof of their encounter, and the Japanese government reacted quickly to locate the commander Taniguchi, the officer who gave the order to resist Onoda matter what happened. Moved to Lubang, Taniguchi announced on March 9, 1974 at Onoda the end of the war nearly thirty years ago and ordered to surrender their weapons. Now, Onoda accepted the order and delivered to his superior, along with his uniform, his sword, his rifle Arisaka type, almost 500 bullets and hand grenades.
A surprising fact was that he had taken account of the days, months and years, calculated by the lunar phases and was only six days out of date.
Returning to his country, felt moved Onoda, did not realize that many traditions have disappeared, and although he had written a book about his life in the jungle and ran to the Diet in April 1975 followed in the footsteps of his older brother Tadao and emigrated to Brazil, where he devoted himself to raising livestock. However, after news of a teenager who had murdered his parents in 1980, he returned to Japan in 1984 to found the Onoda Shizen Juku, a youth camp with various offices in the country.
Although he promised not to return, Onoda returned to Lubang 1996, donated $ 10,000 to the local school and got to meet one of the men he faced in those years. And although he came to kill thirty people in the Philippine island and participated in several shootouts with local police, the circumstances that surrounded him were taken into consideration, and Onoda reached forgiveness of President Ferdinand Marcos.
Currently, life goes peacefully Onoda between Japan and Brazil.
Before starting the mission, Major Yoshima Tanigushi, clearly told his soldiers:
You are not allowed to commit suicide. Its mission can last three years, five years, but whatever happens, we will pick you up. Until then, whenever you have a soldier in charge is their leader. Under no circumstances can take their own lives.
With these words spoken by his superior officer, Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda was fired before leaving the Philippine island of Lubang as responsible for a special commando unit belonging to the Intelligence Service of the Imperial Japanese Army. Never have suspected it would remain in combat for more than 30 years.
Fate had it that the island was taken shortly after arriving at her and most members of his unit killed, except your own Onoda and three soldiers, with whom he went into the jungle ready to resist as long as it necessary. Orders received were clear: it should never give up, and although the first news was about the end of the war was in October 1945 in a pamphlet he found, his strict sense of duty prevented him surrender to the enemy.
The group survived on what little fruit they gathered to hunt any animals getting trying not to get noticed and, above all, changing very often the location of their camp to avoid detection. Later that same year, hundreds of pamphlets written by General Tomoyuki Yama****a were dropped by allied forces from the air. They could read that the guerrilla group was authorized to lay down their weapons, but it was impossible to verify the accuracy of the written word, Osono decided to continue the fight.
However, the finding of such sheets permeated the thinking of Yuichi Akatsu, a member of the group that split from the rest in September 1949 and ended up surrendering in 1950. This created a security problem that remained, which caused them to do more and more elusive.
The year 1952 he made another attempt to locate the command, to which were launched, also from the air, letters and photos of their relatives urging them to surrender, but the three soldiers came to the conclusion that all this was a deception. In 1953 Shoichi Shimada was shot in the leg during a shootout with a group of local fishermen, and May 7, 1954 was killed in a clash with police still looking for.
On October 19, 1972, fell Kozuka Kinshichi shot while burning in an action of sabotage, the rice harvested by local farmers. Onoda left alone since then, and remained so until 1974 when, Norio Suzuki, a Japanese university student who had dropped out of school to "find Lieutenant Onoda, a panda, and the abominable snowman, in that order," landfall on the island getting found shortly after the lieutenant and make friends with him. After this, Suzuki was the intention of getting back together with Onoda to his country, but the latter kept his ground, not give up until they received the order directly from a superior.
Suzuki returned to Japan with photographs of himself with Onoda as proof of their encounter, and the Japanese government reacted quickly to locate the commander Taniguchi, the officer who gave the order to resist Onoda matter what happened. Moved to Lubang, Taniguchi announced on March 9, 1974 at Onoda the end of the war nearly thirty years ago and ordered to surrender their weapons. Now, Onoda accepted the order and delivered to his superior, along with his uniform, his sword, his rifle Arisaka type, almost 500 bullets and hand grenades.
A surprising fact was that he had taken account of the days, months and years, calculated by the lunar phases and was only six days out of date.
Returning to his country, felt moved Onoda, did not realize that many traditions have disappeared, and although he had written a book about his life in the jungle and ran to the Diet in April 1975 followed in the footsteps of his older brother Tadao and emigrated to Brazil, where he devoted himself to raising livestock. However, after news of a teenager who had murdered his parents in 1980, he returned to Japan in 1984 to found the Onoda Shizen Juku, a youth camp with various offices in the country.
Although he promised not to return, Onoda returned to Lubang 1996, donated $ 10,000 to the local school and got to meet one of the men he faced in those years. And although he came to kill thirty people in the Philippine island and participated in several shootouts with local police, the circumstances that surrounded him were taken into consideration, and Onoda reached forgiveness of President Ferdinand Marcos.
Currently, life goes peacefully Onoda between Japan and Brazil.