TOKYO — Hiroo Onoda, the last Japanese imperial soldier to emerge from hiding and surrender 29 years after the end of World War II, has died. He was 91. Onoda died Thursday at a Tokyo hospital ...

World War II was over — but not for Hiroo Onoda. A lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Army, Mr. Onoda spent an additional 29 years hiding in the jungle of an isolated Philippine island.

Hiroo Onoda kept fighting World War II long after it ended—hiding in the jungle, convinced surrender was dishonor. His story is one of loyalty, survival, and isolation.

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When Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda was deployed to Lubang in the Philippines in 1944, he was instructed to hold the remote island until the Japanese Army returned. Onoda took the orders very ...

Hiroo Onoda - The holdout Japanese soldier who refused to believe that Japan had surrendered. Loyal servant of the Emperor, he kept true and faithful to his orders to never surrender and to keep ...

In “The Twilight World,” the filmmaker Werner Herzog vividly reconstructs the personal war of Hiroo Onoda, who stayed in the jungle for years after World War II ended. By Liesl Schillinger ...

His debut novel, “The Twilight World,” is a spare and lyric tale about Hiroo Onoda, a real Japanese lieutenant who terrorized the Philippine villagers of Lubang Island with guerrilla tactics ...

"Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle" is a war epic based on the true story of Hiroo Onoda. (Dark Star Pictures) The war in the Pacific may have ended on Sept. 2, 1945, for just about everyone ...

It tells the story of Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese soldier who kept fighting decades after the end of WWII. Renowned filmmaker Werner Herzog turned 80 years old yesterday, and he's still trying news ...

Werner Herzog has confirmed he is working on an animated feature adaptation of his 2021 novel The Twilight World about real-life Japanese solider Hiroo Onoda who refused to surrender for some 30 ...