No Surrender, Hiroo Onoda, The Japanese soldier who refused to give up

I was an official and received an order, if I had not fulfilled it I would be embarrassed,
answered the Japanese Hiro Onoda in an interview. The Japanese fought in the World War II
and as iIt was usual in the Japanese army, surrender meant loosinge honor, according to
Japanese culture of this that time.

However, when the WW II finished many Japanese soldier stayed in his their position in many
small islands of in the pPacific or in rain forests of in continental Asia. This way, the young
Onoda, who had been sent to Lubang Island (the Filipinas Philipines) on 26 December 1944, he
had as a main mission to resist on the island in case of an American invasion.

Onoda and his companions was were hidden in the rain forest, ate fruit and wild animals that
they huntedr. In several opportunitiesy, they was were informed by villagers about the end of
the war, but the soldiers never believed it. One of the soldier give gave up in 1950 and the
other two was were dead killed by local Filipina Philipine police and by fighting with local
peoples. Onada stayed alone in the rain forest until 1972.

Two years after, the soldier meet a Japanese student that had been abandoned his studies. He
went expressly to Lubang to searching for The lieutenant Onoda. Both Japanese started a
difficult friendship. Although Onada had 30 years fighting for his country, he don’t didn’t had
have any intention of givinge up. “ I will only surrender to my superior” .

When the Japanese Government was informed to of the official’s location to the official, they
sent the superior Yoshimi Taniguchi to ordered surrender. This way the Japanese surrendered
his uniform and his sword and rifle, who was in condition to work, 500 cartridges and several
hand grenades.

When Hiroo Onada returned to Jjapan in 1974, Japan it was changed, he could not adapter and
went to Brazil to have a quiet life, tThere he got married and many years after he returned to
Japan where he wrote a book called “Not surrender”.