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From: warinner@flood.xnet.com (Robert Warinner)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: No surrender
Date: 16 Jul 1996 21:41:40 GMT

>From the FAQ:

T. There were (are?) Japanese soldiers hiding out on isles in Pacific who

believed WWII was still on.

In the interest of helping out Emily Kelly, I dug up some references for the above:

Onoda, Hiroo. No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1974 Masashi, Ito. The Emperor's Last Soldiers. New York: Coward, 1967

http://fermi.bsd.uchicago.edu/Paul_Spr95/JapanHistFiguresLtOnoda.html http://www.kyodo.co.jp/cgi-bin/kwsSummary/General/960524

Hiroo Onoda holds the honor of the last Japanese soldier to surrender, finally packing it in in 1974. Attempts were made to persuade Hiroo to surrender, including appeals from his relatives. It took his former commanding officer to convince Hiroo the war was over. He had been holding out Lubang Island in the Phillipines. After spending some time in Japan, he retired to a ranch in Brazil.

Onoda recently resurfaced in May 1996, returning to the Phillipines for a visit. No word if he wanted to stay.

(See http://www.xnet.com/~warinner/surrender.html for pictures of the redoutable Lt. Onoda.)

Andrew "Yankee go home" Warinner


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