In December 1944, 22-year-old intelligence officer Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese Imperial Army was deployed to Lubang Island in the Philippines, where he was given orders to disrupt and sabotage enemy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No man is an island, but for 29 years, until his final surrender in 1974, Hiroo Onoda came as close as any man could. Leading an ...

FOR YEARS after the end of the second world war, Japanese soldiers hid in the jungles of South-East Asia and the Pacific islands, convinced that the ceasefire was a hoax. In their home country, the ...

The formal surrender of Japan was held in Tokyo Bay on Sept. 2, 1945 — weeks after two atomic bomb blasts brought an end to years of carnage. World War II was over, but not for Hiroo Onoda. A ...

When Japan formally surrendered to the Allied powers on Sept. 2, 1945, World War II was over—but not for Hiroo Onoda. The Japanese army lieutenant, stationed on the Philippine island of Lubang, had ...

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 ...

Japanese army officer who hid in the jungle of the Philippines for 30 years, refusing to accept that the war was over This picture taken on March 11, 1974 shows former Japanese imperial army soldier ...

Shot using Japanese actors and in the Japanese language (which is already a gamble when it comes to funding), the film avails itself of a world-renowned true story: the diehard path trodden by ...

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“Fargo” fans get another interesting history lesson from V.M. Varga (David Thewlis) in Season 3’s latest episode. And like the previous instances in which the show has plumbed the real world for weird ...