What is hiro onoda?

Hiro Onoda was a Japanese soldier who served in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. He was assigned to Lubang Island in the Philippines in December 1944, where he remained until his surrender in March 1974. During this time, Onoda continued to carry out his military duties, convinced that the war was still ongoing and that he was under orders to continue fighting.

Onoda's prolonged resistance on Lubang Island became famous, and he was eventually persuaded to surrender by a Japanese explorer, Norio Suzuki, in 1974. Onoda returned to Japan to a hero's welcome and later wrote a memoir about his experiences, titled "No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War."

Onoda died in January 2014 at the age of 91. He is remembered as a symbol of the extreme dedication and loyalty exhibited by Japanese soldiers during World War II, as well as a cautionary tale about the dangers of blind obedience and the consequences of war.