At the end of World War II, Japan surrendered and he was ordered to fight in the mountains of a foreign country!

At the end of World War II, he was ordered to fight in a foreign mountainous area. Japan surrendered and he was still fighting. Even when his relatives come to save him, he still fights. He firmly believed that the Japanese Empire would never surrender.

Finally, the officer from that year came and gave him a surrender order, and he put down his weapons. So far, he has been struggling for 30 years! Later he turned out to be an industrialist, an engineer of the human soul, who lived a long life and died.

His name is HiroroOnoda.

White-collar workers turned into soldiers and spent 30 years as barbarians, carrying out orders.

Onoda was born in Hainan, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan in 1922. His ancestors were samurai, his father was a member of the prefectural assembly, and his mother was one of the few educated women in Japan at that time.

Onoda’s four brothers, except him, were all admitted to prestigious universities. However, Onoda had a conflict with his father when he was young, so he ran away from home and came to work at Tiandao Yangxing in Hankou, China.

At that time, the Japanese army fully invaded China, and it was difficult for Japanese trading companies in China to make money. Onoda was less than 20 years old at the time and had a monthly salary of 200 yen. You know, the salary of a Japanese army general at that time was 500 yen.

My life in China is very luxurious, I drive a Ford car, I am proficient in English and Chinese, and I have high-end hobbies like photography and radio communications.

Onoda was selected by the army to become a special forces soldier and was stationed on Lubang Island in the Philippines. On December 17, 1944, his boss Yoshimi Taniguchi ordered Onoda to launch guerrilla warfare on Lubang Island.

He said to Onoda: We will retreat, but only temporarily. You enter the mountains and deal with enemies by planting mines and blowing up warehouses. I forbid you to commit suicide or surrender. In three, four, five years, I will be back. Only I can cancel this order.

On February 28, 1945, the US military landed on Lubang Island. Most of the Japanese troops either surrendered or died on the battlefield. Together with three Japanese soldiers, Onoda, Otsuka Feng Jingen, and Akatsuki, they entered the jungle and fought to the end.

Soon, Japan surrendered. Instead, let the United States and the Philippines withdraw the propaganda. Onoda and others stubbornly believed that the war was not over, that the US military was spreading propaganda and deceiving the people, and they continued to fight deep in the jungle.

Later, one of Onoda's three comrades surrendered, two died, and he was the only one left. The Japanese government sent his brother to persuade him to surrender, but he refused, saying it was a trick by the enemy.

Onota insisted that he would only surrender if ordered to do so by his commander. Every morning, he would climb the mountain as usual, salute the rising sun, and continue his fight.

Time flies, and it’s 1974 in the blink of an eye. In order to save Onoda, Japanese explorer Yukio Suzuki went to great lengths to find Yoshimi Sugawara, who gave orders to Onoda.

According to the prior agreement, the two people who had been at odds for 30 years finally met. The thin and old second lieutenant Hirō Onoda faced the officers and accepted Taniguchi's command with the most standard salute.

Taniguchi, who was also wearing military uniform, read the surrender order to Onota. Onota removed his rifle from his shoulder and staggered toward the local police station.

At this point, Onoda has been a savage warrior in the mountains for thirty years.

The ghost on the island, the nightmare of the locals

What did Onoda do on Lubang Island for thirty years?

When the U.S. military occupied the island, they had several skirmishes with Onoda's team. As a result, only four people were left in ——'s team: Onoda, Shimada, Otsuka and Akatsu.

The wireless machine disappeared and I lost contact with the Japanese army. In order to convey to the Japanese army that we were still alive, these four soldiers deliberately harassed the local residents, causing an encirclement and suppression by the Philippine Mountain Forces.

In order to boost morale, Onoda paid great attention to creating an atmosphere. His hideout in the forest was clean, with slogans on the walls to carry the war to the end and a portrait of the emperor engraved on a banana leaf. While his men were alive, Onota often trained them and even organized poetry contests.

When he was finally left alone, in order to avoid the enemy, Onoda ran around carrying more than 20 kilograms of daily necessities every day, living a wild life. He would suddenly appear in the village, shoot the farmers, and then hide in the mountains. Local farmers would be brutally shot by him for no reason while harvesting bananas.

Death always followed him like a shadow. The only way he could overcome his fear was to take a challenging stance.

He repeatedly said to himself: On the battlefield, if you don't kill people, they will kill you! People will die if they lie on the tatami. My death was entirely due to a wrong judgment I made.

In the 30-year Battle of Onota, 130 Filipinos, including soldiers, policemen and civilians, were killed or wounded. This was a blood debt.

A man’s surrender ceremony, he cried like a child.

When such a war killer walked out of the mountains and forests, the Philippine government held a grand surrender ceremony for him with great fanfare because of its relationship with Japan.

After accepting the surrender order from officer Taniguchi, Onoda wore a half-worn Japanese military uniform and came to the Philippine Army Base on Lubang Island. He handed his saber to the Philippine Army Commander and bowed deeply. , solemnly put the rifle on the ground and said: I am Second Lieutenant Onoda. I surrender to you on orders from my superiors.

The Philippine commander returned the saber to Onoda and said: You are a sample of military loyalty.

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos also attended the surrender ceremony and praised Onoda as an excellent soldier.

However, Onoda still seems to have not forgotten that he is the Japanese Imperial Army. He told people at the scene that he was 52 years old. If he lives to be 60 years old, he will risk his life to work as a jade at the assault radar base.

When people told him again that the war ended as early as 1945, he was shocked! Q: How did Japan fail? Why should I love guns like a baby? As he spoke, he sat there and began to cry.

Given that Onoda committed so many murders, many Filipinos advocated that he be imprisoned and brought to justice. Thanks to the mediation of the Japanese government, Philippine President Marcos pardoned him and allowed the 52-year-old Onoda to return to Japan.

Refused to see the emperor, went to Brazil to be a farmer, and finally devoted himself to education.

After Onoda returned to Japan, he was warmly welcomed as a hero by the people across the country and became a symbol of the so-called Japanese hero.

Onoda participated in many activities, especially those of Japanese right-wing veterans. Whenever the ceremony begins and the old military song is sung, I will be so excited that tears will fill my eyes. He has given countless media interviews, and every time he talks about this issue, there are 130 civilian casualties.

He is not ashamed and firmly believes that he is right. He is in the war and is not responsible for the deaths of these people. To this end, he also wrote his autobiography Never Surrender, My Thirty Years War, which became an instant bestseller.

He refused millions of court gifts, and also refused to meet with the prime minister and the emperor, because he always felt that the real emperor would not surrender, and the emperor who asked him to meet must be a fake!

However, modern Japanese life keeps Onoda awake at night. Home appliances such as washing machines frighten him, and jets and televisions frighten him. He misses his more than 30 years of wilderness life. He felt like he belonged there.

In 1975, Onoda fled Japan. With the help of his brother, he went to Brazil, bought a large farm, and settled there. He developed 1,200 hectares of land, raised 1,800 cows, and became a farmer.

I immigrated to Brazil for ten years, gradually got used to the post-war civilization, and returned to Japan.

In 1980, a vicious case occurred in Kawasaki where a student beat his parents to death with a baseball bat. Onoda believed that this was the product of the exam war, and he felt that he should make full use of his remaining energy and devote himself to the education of his children.

So he established the Onoda Nature School Education and Training College, which specializes in teaching filial piety values ??and wilderness survival skills. Later, when he was too old to run a school, he became a teacher. At the age of 78, he became a lecturer at Hokuriku University and Takushoku University.

On January 16, 2014, Hiroshi Onoda, the last Japanese surrendered soldier, died of pneumonia in a Tokyo hospital at the age of 92.