In December 1944, 22-year-old intelligence officer Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese Imperial Army was deployed to Lubang Island in the Philippines, where he was given orders to disrupt and sabotage enemy ...

No man is an island, but for 29 years, until his final surrender in 1974, Hiroo Onoda came as close as any man could. Leading an ever-dwindling band of Japanese holdouts who refused to believe their ...

FOR YEARS after the end of the second world war, Japanese soldiers hid in the jungles of South-East Asia and the Pacific islands, convinced that the ceasefire was a hoax. In their home country, the ...

Hiroo Onoda, an Imperial Japanese Army officer who remained at his jungle post on an island in the Philippines for 29 years, refusing to believe that World War II was over, and returned to a hero’s ...

The formal surrender of Japan was held in Tokyo Bay on Sept. 2, 1945 — weeks after two atomic bomb blasts brought an end to years of carnage. World War II was over, but not for Hiroo Onoda. A ...

Hiroo Onoda, an Imperial Japanese Army officer who remained at his jungle post on an island in the Philippines for 29 years, refusing to believe that World War II was over, and returned to a hero's ...

Hiroo Onoda, who has died aged 91, was a wartime Japanese officer who surrendered only in 1974, having hunkered down in the jungles of the Philippines for nearly three decades in defiant honor of the ...

When Japan formally surrendered to the Allied powers on Sept. 2, 1945, World War II was over—but not for Hiroo Onoda. The Japanese army lieutenant, stationed on the Philippine island of Lubang, had ...

The gaunt figure must have appeared ghost-like when he emerged from the jungle. He was obviously a military man, as his ramrod-straight back and confident gait sang out in contrast to the patchwork ...

Shot using Japanese actors and in the Japanese language (which is already a gamble when it comes to funding), the film avails itself of a world-renowned true story: the diehard path trodden by ...

Rafael Motamayor is an entertainment writer and critic for sites like Collider, Observer, Rotten Tomatoes, /Film, IGN, and more. He specializes in writing about horror and animation, and yearns for ...