The loyal Japanese soldier.. has been fighting for 30 years after the end of the war because he did not receive an order to withdraw!

The era of the two world wars is still full of mysteries and exciting stories, one of the most prominent of which has returned to brightness again because of its exciting details, as a Japanese soldier continued to fight 30 years after the end of World War II.

The story goes back to 1944, when Second Lieutenant Hiro Onoda and three of his colleagues were ordered by their commander not to surrender, to "fight to the bitter end", and not to commit suicide.

The young intelligence officer kept his promise, despite planes dropping leaflets telling him that the war was over, but he decided to abide by those orders, and launched a guerrilla campaign in the Philippines for 30 years after the end of World War II.

According to "Sky News Arabia", the amazing story reappeared, this August, with the memory of the United States forcing Japan to surrender from World War II, after dropping its atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Despite the horror of those events, she was far from Onoda who was deep in the Filipino jungle on Lubang Island, unaware of the terrible events unfolding in his homeland.

Onoda explained in 2010: "Every Japanese soldier was prepared to die, but as an intelligence officer, I was ordered to wage a guerrilla war and not to die. I became an officer and received an order.

When American and Philippine forces stormed Lubang in February 1945, nearly all Japanese soldiers were either killed or surrendered, but Onoda, a highly trained survivalist, led his surviving comrades into a mountainous forest inside the island and launched a guerrilla campaign.

Despite the loss of his country, he and his comrades were convinced that the surrender order document dropped by the planes was "fake", because it was riddled with errors.

They continued their war, surviving by eating stolen forest fruits and farm animals, while sometimes killing an "enemy soldier" they thought was disguised as a "farmer or policeman".

Onada was the last man to remain in the group, and he continued to dismiss search groups that were intermittently sent to follow him, as hostile ploys to trick him into surrendering.

He even dismissed a Japanese flag planted in the woods, bearing his family's signatures, as a hoax, although there is a recording of his elderly mother, now 86, begging: "Please come home while I'm alive."

Onada finally surrendered in 1974, after he was found by a Japanese traveler named Norio Suzuki.

Suzuki initially won the stubborn soldier's trust, but refused to leave unless his orders were rescinded.

So the commander of Onada, who had become a retired bookseller from the army, was transferred to officially order him to step down.

Onoda gave up his sword, a still working Arisaka rifle, 500 rounds of ammunition, several grenades, and a dagger from his mother to commit suicide if captured.

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