In 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender, the Second World War ended, and from 1939 onwards, the artillery fire raging around the world finally subsided, and the earth was in ruins. Although the large-scale war was over at that time, there were still some areas where small-scale wars were still being fought.
What makes people cry is that the reason why this small-scale war did not stop was mainly because the Japanese surrender was too fast at that time, resulting in the Japanese army being unable to receive the news of Japan's surrender in the battlefields of some principle cities. Even when these Japanese troops were told this fact, they thought it was the enemy's trajectory and therefore continued to stick to their mission.
Today we will learn a similar story, the Japanese soldiers did not know the surrender of Japan, in the Philippine jungle to stick to the mission, guerrilla for 30 years, after the surrender of the weeping and weeping.
In the Pacific Theater, many Japanese soldiers were sent to fight on some islands, and these islands were far from the land, so it was difficult to receive news in time. Because of this, the team of a Japanese soldier named Onoda Hiroshi was still fighting after the end of Japan.
Onoda's army was sent to Lubang Island in the Philippines in 1944 to protect the Japanese positions and gather Intelligence from the United States. As the war progressed, Ono's superiors were one day transferred, and before leaving, they ordered Ono to hold this position and not to surrender, and to return in a few years. In this way, with such an important mission, Ono and his party stood firm in this position.
Unexpectedly, shortly after its superiors left, Japan announced its surrender. At that time, because the surrender was too sudden, many people did not react, even if some American troops later spread leaflets around the island to tell the Japanese troops on the island about the surrender to Japan, however, these leaflets were considered to be the enemy's plan, so they did not come out, but continued to fight guerrilla warfare in the Philippine jungle.
Their guerrilla warfare took a heavy toll on the U.S. military and the local population, and many people died at gunpoint. But since they only have a few people left in the rainforest, it is difficult to catch them. Even later, the U.S. military asked some Japanese soldiers to persuade them to surrender, and these Japanese soldiers, who had been ordered not to surrender, remained unmoved. As a last resort, the U.S. army approached their families and asked them to persuade ono to surrender, but to no avail.
In this way, it was not until 1950 that one Japanese soldier finally could not bear it and chose to surrender, but the remaining Ono still decided to stick to their mission. In the end, in the continuous guerrilla warfare, only Ono and another soldier remained. The two men persisted in the jungle for a long time until 1972, when they went to the town to loot supplies, they were met by The Philippine police, and Ono's last companion died.
However, even though Ono was left alone, he remained on his mission in the Philippine jungle until 30 years later, in 1974, when Ono met a Japanese photographer in the jungle who had come specifically to look for him. After talking to a Japanese photographer, he finally determined that the war had ended 30 years ago. To determine what the photographer was saying, he even asked his superiors to come and talk to him in person. A month later, his superiors personally came to give him the order to surrender, and he became the last person in Japan to surrender.
After hearing the order to surrender, Ono wept bitterly. The reason for this is probably because he suddenly realized that the mission he had insisted on for so long had become a joke and a sense of relief. He didn't die in Japan until he was 92 years old, ending a life he couldn't comment on.