For decades, the Japanese army lieutenant Onoda W Lang has been alive in 1944. Even though the world has been constantly changing, he forever live in the skirmish in World War II. In 1974, when he finally returned to the modern world, the face of social alteration, he did not understand: especially can not comprehend the Japanese Constitution limits for assorted types of military actions. Aged him to partake in various patriotic activities, when the Japanese military melodies sounded consonant old, he will shed tears.
Onoda W Lang, 1922 was nativity on March 19, Wakayama Prefecture in Japan and Hainan City. March 1939 to December 1942 was conscripted into the soldiers and Wakayama 61 Wing, 218th Infantry, after delivery of the island Wing. September 1943 to become a kind of cadres and cadets, in January 1944 into the Army prepared Kurume first military college. August, non-commissioned officers after graduation service trainee to become noncommissioned commanders. September into the educate two Minamata Army Nakano School, received guerrilla warfare exercising. Sent to the Philippines after graduation in November. Onoda was sent to a one island in the Philippines - lubang Island (Lubang), prepared to carry out guerrilla warfare in the U.S. after landing.
1944 年 12 17, boss Tanida command 23-year-old Onoda in Lubang Island to fire a guerrilla war against the Americans. He Onoda said: This command only I can annul. Onoda the leftover divided into groups, with the Wu Tian Long Island, Lance Corporal small mound gold 7, Lance Corporal with 3 red-chun, secret jungle people persist to recalcitrant.
8 15, in the Allied Joint Strike, Japan announced its unconditional surrender. U.S. forces sent by the Japanese infantry had surrendered, as the army went apt the islands to capitulate, and planted a large number of pamphlets. October 1945, Onoda penetrate Americans issued pamphlets namely read: I listened gunfire no far, so finds campaign is no over, brochures prevaricate, they hid deep in the forest.
each morning, with three soldiers Onoda ascend mountains, facing the rising sun salute, and continue his fight. His strategy is clear: he can not capture the entire island, but he can make on the island of Filipinos aware of their subsistence, and accordingly generate a pervasive panic, in this sense, he became the ruler of the island: This is the maximum goal of guerrilla war. Thus, he suddenly appeared in the village, shot and killed local farmers, and taken refuge in the mountains. There are dozens of banana farmers in the crop, the gratuitous shot die by their marble.
Onoda, who maintained a strategy of often moving, even the locals tin not grab them. Stay in the same place a few days later,
Women Vibram FiveFingers Speed, they will migrate. In the long raining season, they camp, for no an in the mountains during the raining season. They pilfer edible to local residents, and acquired, annihilating buffalo, arrest rabbits and dine lizards, they will be saved even as dried banana bread, in mandate to retain a certain degree of heat. But they tin not hound too many food, because the shots will be exposed to his fighting position. When the rainy season, they were wary of each additional, try to linger {awake|wake up}, avoid sleeping deserving to hypothermia and necrosis.
lubang Island Ella Moss, former Deputy Chief Executive, said: carved portrait of the dictator banana leaves his men living, Onoda constantly train them, and even systematized verse championships. Ella Moss said: They believe the war is over, we dispensed at the time of the newspapers and letters to friends and relatives Onoda guerrillas and afterwards I queried Onoda, why do not you surrender? he said, the principle that letters and newspapers are fabricated. Year after year passed. Japan built into a piece of skyscrapers, Japanese creation of electronic products sold around the earth, Tokyo industrialist bought a large U.S. companies,
Vibram FiveFingers Sprint, and Onoda, who has continued to fight for the emperor lubang Island. They nectar water, fruit and roots by starve, fortunately, he only committed one tonsillitis. Often rain-soaked night in the jungle,
Vibram FiveFingers Flow, they can only cover your body with their rifle. Each month, they have bombarded a military vehicle, killing the driver.
1949 (1950) in the day, red-chun, Lance can not stand the torture of despair, the surroundings, hands up, surrender to the local police. The remaining three reciprocal provocation to reserve the fight. The emulating year, they found that red-chun, left numerous leaflets in the mountains, differentiate them the war is over as a long time, Japan had surrendered for numerous years. They too found that red-chun joined the local quest team, the mountains in the island began to capitulate. Onoda, that this is the enemy's strategy for the red-chun, betrayal can not agree. He ordered entire retreated deeper in the mountains to avoid the enemy's pitfall.
1952, the letter of their loved ones by the newspaper and Japan, continue to arise in the deep forest, I wish the three of them bearing in mind the kin, may slacken the attitude of surrender. However, Onoda still consider that this is the will of the breakdown of their strategy, stubborn, he concluded: to continue the war, never to surrender.
1953 June Shimada corporal in an action shot in the thigh by the local fishermen. Although the later retrieval, but in May the retinue year, Shimada has died in a conflict even now. Ten days later,
Women FiveFingers Performa, the new leaflets appear. Search team took the microphone in the mountains approximately shouting loudly, said: But they remained unconvinced. They felt that the war still going on, Japan is still fighting, surrender is a great shame, they firmly trust in the one day of back-up forces in Japan will arrest the entire island, the flag will be flying in the air the sun. Even while Onoda's brother came to the island, holding the microphone for his dissemination, he still believes that this is fair like the U.S. military personnel to proclaim his brother's voice to trap him. Guerrilla let him amplify a skeptical attitude toward anything, more importantly, he was confident that the Japanese are a nation preferably die than surrender, he can not let the Japanese Imperial Army was still fighting with the people dissatisfied. Onoda ranks with the rest of the soldiers and another excavate in the jungle from the air can not find an underground bunker and moved into it.
lubang Island Molina, Vice Chief Executive, said with a smile: With the mind of committing suicide, but presently gave up because the boss would not let him do so. Onoda and a small mound still standing, like the sun salute. In 1965, they steal a radio, heard the newspaper reports on multinational narratives, China and Japan is not a hostile nation. However, they still refused to recognize the world changed. Them unchanged, killing peasants, burning rice.
them after World War II,
Vibram FiveFingers Speed, ordered latent (claiming to be superior not received evacuation orders), went by far as the mountains in a diplomatic mysterious life in the wilderness for 28 years. Onoda said to have been able to in the mountains at the peak of primitive male survived because the Japanese Army had received the exercise field reconnaissance school. Sources also said that in the South Pacific island of Bana still left traces of the old Japanese military activities.
1972 年 10 月 Onoda planted in a neighboring countryside final remaining mine, because of rust, bomb did not burst. October 9, 1972, the Philippine police force's report by the local peasants, the island in lubang Japanese soldiers found 2 old straw burning in the hills. Philippine police sergeant and the others Sauter speedily rushed to the scene, the hills aboard the 2 Japanese soldiers now fired his pistol. In the shot, a Japanese soldier was killed and another fled into the jungle. Later identified by the police is killed Private First Class Oscar seven side Rengzhao well-maintained 38-style rifle, and sprint away is Onoda W Lang. Small mounds in the body shots, which shot via the heart guiding to killed even now. 27 annuals after the Japanese surrender, the Japanese soldier's death reasoned Tokyo's attention. Japan quickly sent to Burma, Malaysia and the Philippines to find hidden in the woods of Japanese soldiers. Mountains of leaflets extra, in counting to weeklies, magazines, and small mound in Japan the funeral message. Onoda still do not purchase it.
1974 年 2 月 20, he came cross in the mountains of Japan Yukio Suzuki explorer's tent (he was one of the intentions of exploration, is to find Onoda). Onoda slowly approaching from backward Suzuki,
Vibram Five Fingers, Suzuki was a Japanese finding. So they started a dialogue. Suzuki told Onoda, Japan actually surrendered, the war is long over. Ono Tianze Jian who will be a commander's order to surrender, and a good knife to save himself to the Emperor. Suzuki promises will send a return of his captain's orders.
Suzuki went to large lengths to detect Onoda's antique boss, Mei Taniguchi. Taniguchi has been renamed and had transform a bookseller. March 9, 1974, Onoda found a memorandum left by Suzuki, said his old officer, Major Taniguchi Mei has come to the local, and splice a photocopy of a complete evacuation orders. Two days later, Onoda over the hills, to the coincided place. Skinny old subaltern Onoda broad face of Executive Lang greet to the most criterion action, averaging the United States, Major Taniguchi received the bid. The same Valley fields of wearing uniforms stood straight Onoda read a surrender order. Won the rifle from the shoulder, hiked unsteadily to the police station. March 10, 1974 early morn, clothed in military uniforms Onoda Banjiu Japan to Da Lubang Island police station, later he bowed deeply to the people, solemnly to rifle into the ground, said: I Upon orders from their superiors to surrender to you. Many Filipinos demand to Onoda jail, and brought to justice. However, due to the nice offices of the Japanese government, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos was apologized him and has allowed 52-year-old Onoda returned to Japan. March 12, 1974, he and Mei Taniguchi wood with her husband and returned to Japan.
Lieutenant Onoda wide
Lang reported that he then returned to the magazine
1974 年 2 月 20, with the casual Onoda Yukio Suzuki, and Onoda's photo
the Japanese government sent at the shore shouting photographs, Onoda's brother, brother afraid to hear their own voice, they made a big balloon hung banners that read: photographs taken
boss discharge order was written, Onoda eventually surrendered. Taken to the local military base
to salvage his staff thank
the knife to the Philippine military, formally surrendered