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The story of the WW2 Japanese soldier who didn’t surrender until 1974
Posted by weagle99 on 5/4/19 at 3:42 am250
A very interesting read. This was a highlight for me:
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On 20 February 1974, Onoda met a Japanese man, Norio Suzuki, who was traveling around the world, looking for "Lieutenant Onoda, a panda, and the Abominable Snowman, in that order". Suzuki found Onoda after four days of searching. Onoda described this moment in a 2010 interview: "This hippie boy Suzuki came to the island to listen to the feelings of a Japanese soldier. Suzuki asked me why I would not come out ...” Onoda and Suzuki became friends, but Onoda still refused to surrender, saying that he was waiting for orders from a superior officer. Suzuki returned to Japan with photographs of himself and Onoda as proof of their encounter, and the Japanese government located Onoda's commanding officer, Major Yoshimi Taniguchi, who had since become a bookseller. He flew to Lubang where on 9 March 1974, he finally met with Onoda and fulfilled the promise made in 1944, "Whatever happens, we'll come back for you," by issuing him the following orders:
In accordance with the Imperial command, the Fourteenth Area Army has ceased all combat activity.
In accordance with military Headquarters Command No. A-2003, the Special Squadron of Staff's Headquarters is relieved of all military duties.
Units and individuals under the command of Special Squadron are to cease military activities and operations immediately and place themselves under the command of the nearest superior officer. When no officer can be found, they are to communicate with the American or Philippine forces and follow their directives.
Onoda was thus properly relieved of duty, and he surrendered. He turned over his sword, his functioning Arisaka Type 99 rifle, 500 rounds of ammunition and several hand grenades, as well as the dagger his mother had given him in 1944 to kill himself with if he was captured.[9] Only Private Teruo Nakamura, arrested on 18 December 1974 in Indonesia, held out for longer.
Though he had killed people and engaged in shootouts with the police, the circumstances (namely, that he believed that the war was still ongoing) were taken into consideration, and Onoda received a pardon from President Ferdinand Marcos.
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The first time they saw a leaflet announcing that Japan had surrendered was in October 1945; another cell had killed a cow and found a leaflet left behind by islanders which read: "The war ended on August 15. Come down from the mountains!"[8] However, they distrusted the leaflet. They concluded that the leaflet was Allied propaganda, and also believed that they would not have been fired on if the war had indeed been over. Toward the end of 1945, leaflets were dropped by air with a surrender order printed on them from General Tomoyuki Yamashita of the Fourteenth Area Army. They had been in hiding for over a year, and this leaflet was the only evidence they had the war was over. Onoda's group looked very closely at the leaflet to determine whether it was genuine, and decided it was not.[1]
re: The story of the WW2 Japanese soldier who didn’t surrender until 1974Posted by BeachDude022 on 5/4/19 at 3:45 am to weagle99
Weird, but interesting
re: The story of the WW2 Japanese soldier who didn’t surrender until 1974Posted by BRgetthenet on 5/4/19 at 5:03 am to weagle99
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Onoda's group looked very closely at the leaflet to determine whether it was genuine, and decided it was not.
This made me laugh, but not out loud.
re: The story of the WW2 Japanese soldier who didn’t surrender until 1974Posted by ksayetiger on 5/4/19 at 5:17 am to weagle99
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Though he had killed people and engaged in shootouts with the police... Onoda received a pardon
War really is hell. he killed innocent people in peace time.
re: The story of the WW2 Japanese soldier who didn’t surrender until 1974Posted by Pvt Hudson on 5/4/19 at 6:41 am to weagle99
Must have been pissed when he figured out the paychecks stopped 30 years ago.
re: The story of the WW2 Japanese soldier who didn’t surrender until 1974Posted by VolsOut4Harambe on 5/4/19 at 6:44 am to weagle99
Just goes to show the mentality the nips had.
They were determined to fight until the last drop of blood was shed.
People who criticize Truman for dropping the bomb don’t realize that the amount of carnage occurring if the war was continued would’ve exponentially outweighed the deaths that came from the bomb. Those frickers were savage.
They were determined to fight until the last drop of blood was shed.
People who criticize Truman for dropping the bomb don’t realize that the amount of carnage occurring if the war was continued would’ve exponentially outweighed the deaths that came from the bomb. Those frickers were savage.
re: The story of the WW2 Japanese soldier who didn’t surrender until 1974Posted by Hangover Haven on 5/4/19 at 7:21 am to weagle99
Wasn't that a Gilligan’s Island episode....?
Ginger kicks butt
Ginger kicks butt
This post was edited on 5/4 at 7:26 am
re: The story of the WW2 Japanese soldier who didn’t surrender until 1974Posted by fr33manator on 5/4/19 at 7:22 am to Hangover Haven
It was also an Archer episode
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re: The story of the WW2 Japanese soldier who didn’t surrender until 1974Posted by shutterspeed on 5/4/19 at 7:33 am to weagle99
There's a book about this named No Surrender: My Thirty Year War, and it's really good.
When I was but a wee lad, in 1972, and living in Guam, a Japanese soldier surrendered. This was about a mile from our home. The newspaper clippings are in a scrapbook somewhere in my Dads attic. It’s always been part of the discussion in my family.
Later , in the 90s, living in Japan I came to understand how much these guys were revered there.
Later , in the 90s, living in Japan I came to understand how much these guys were revered there.
quote:Ah-So, makes sense now.
Later , in the 90s, living in Japan
You learnt how to keep your pimp hand skrong in the way of the Bushido in Nihon.
This post was edited on 5/4 at 7:42 am
re: The story of the WW2 Japanese soldier who didn’t surrender until 1974Posted by LSUlefty on 5/4/19 at 7:44 am to VolsOut4Harambe
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People who criticize Truman for dropping the bomb don’t realize that the amount of carnage occurring if the war was continued would’ve exponentially outweighed the deaths that came from the bomb.
re: The story of the WW2 Japanese soldier who didn’t surrender until 1974Posted by elprez00 on 5/4/19 at 7:47 am to VolsOut4Harambe
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People who criticize Truman for dropping the bomb don’t realize that the amount of carnage occurring if the war was continued would’ve exponentially outweighed the deaths that came from the bomb. Those frickers were savage.
People today truly don’t understand the psychological effect a nuclear bomb had in 1945. There literally is no comparison today. A fanatical enemy that would never surrender needed a fanatical motivation to do so. And we dropped a bomb that wiped the face of the earth like the hand of God.
re: The story of the WW2 Japanese soldier who didn’t surrender until 1974Posted by DragginFly on 5/4/19 at 7:47 am to LCA131
Blind obedience is a slippery slope.
re: The story of the WW2 Japanese soldier who didn’t surrender until 1974Posted by soccerfüt on 5/4/19 at 7:48 am to VolsOut4Harambe
quote:Specifically me more than likely.
People who criticize Truman for dropping the bomb don’t realize that the amount of carnage occurring if the war was continued would’ve exponentially outweighed the deaths that came from the bomb. Those frickers were savage.
My dad would have gotten dead (or worse) on the Honshu Plain in the the first wave of the US Invasion of the Home Islands.
That’s a sobering thought: The O-T without soccerfüt.
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