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Hiroo Onoda, the Glossary

was a second lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II and one of the last Japanese holdouts who continued fighting after the war's end in 1945.^[1]

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Aftermath of World War II in the Philippines
Fugitives wanted by the Philippines
Japanese autobiographers
Japanese emigrants to Brazil
Japanese expatriates in the Philippines
Japanese holdouts
Missing person cases in Japan
People from Wakayama Prefecture
Recipients of Philippine presidential pardons

Arisaka

The Arisaka rifle (Arisaka-jū) is a family of Japanese military bolt-action service rifles, which were produced and used since approximately 1897, when it replaced the Murata rifle (村田銃) family, until the end of World War II in 1945.

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Birth name

A birth name is the name given to a person upon birth.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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Brazilian Air Force

The Brazilian Air Force (Força Aérea Brasileira, FAB) is the air branch of the Brazilian Armed Forces and one of the three national uniformed services.

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Commonwealth of the Philippines

The Commonwealth of the Philippines (Mancomunidad de Filipinas; Komonwelt ng Pilipinas) was an unincorporated territory and commonwealth of the United States that existed from 1935 to 1946.

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Corporal

Corporal is a military rank in use by the armed forces of many countries.

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Empire of Japan

The Empire of Japan, also referred to as the Japanese Empire, Imperial Japan, or simply Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the reformed Constitution of Japan in 1947.

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End of World War II in Asia

World War II officially ended in Asia on September 2, 1945, with the surrender of Japan on the.

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Ferdinand Marcos

--> Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. (September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989) was a Filipino politician, dictator and kleptocrat who served as the tenth president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986.

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Flyer (pamphlet)

A flyer (or flier) is a form of paper advertisement intended for wide distribution and typically posted or distributed in a public place, handed out to individuals or sent through the mail.

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Fourteenth Area Army

The was a field army of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II.

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Giant panda

The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), also known as the panda bear or simply panda, is a bear species endemic to China.

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Guerrilla warfare

Guerrilla warfare is a form of unconventional warfare in which small groups of irregular military, such as rebels, partisans, paramilitary personnel or armed civilians including recruited children, use ambushes, sabotage, terrorism, raids, petty warfare or hit-and-run tactics in a rebellion, in a violent conflict, in a war or in a civil war to fight against regular military, police or rival insurgent forces.

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Imperial Japanese Army

The (IJA) was the principal ground force of the Empire of Japan.

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Indonesia

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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Intelligence officer

An intelligence officer is a person employed by an organization to collect, compile or analyze information (known as intelligence) which is of use to that organization.

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Japanese Brazilians

are Brazilian citizens who are nationals or naturals of Japanese ancestry or Japanese immigrants living in Brazil or Japanese people of Brazilian ancestry.

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Japanese holdout

Japanese holdouts (lit) were soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) and Imperial Japanese Navy during the Pacific Theatre of World War II who continued fighting after the surrender of Japan at the end of the war. Hiroo Onoda and Japanese holdout are Japanese holdouts.

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Japanese occupation of the Philippines

The Japanese occupation of the Philippines (Filipino: Pananakop ng mga Hapones sa Pilipinas; Nihon no Firipin Senryō) occurred between 1942 and 1945, when the Japanese Empire occupied the Commonwealth of the Philippines during World War II.

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Kainan, Wakayama

Street in Konoe neighborhood of Kainan is a city located in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.

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Lieutenant general

Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a military rank used in many countries.

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List of solved missing person cases: pre-1950

This is a list of solved missing person cases of people who went missing in unknown locations or unknown circumstances that were eventually explained by their reappearance or the recovery of their bodies, the conviction of the perpetrator(s) responsible for their disappearances, or a confession to their killings.

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Looc, Occidental Mindoro

Looc, officially the Municipality of Looc (Bayan ng Looc), is a 5th class municipality in the province of Occidental Mindoro, Philippines.

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Lubang Island

Lubang Island is the largest among the seven islands in the Lubang Group of Islands, an archipelago situated to the northwest of the northern tip of the island of Mindoro in the Philippines.

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Major (rank)

Major is a senior military officer rank used in many countries.

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Malacañang Palace

Malacañang Palace (Palasyo ng Malakanyang,; Palacio de Malacañán), officially known as Malacañan Palace, is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the Philippines.

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Manila

Manila (Maynila), officially the City of Manila (Lungsod ng Maynila), is the capital and second-most-populous city of the Philippines after Quezon City.

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Mato Grosso do Sul

Mato Grosso do Sul is one of Brazil's 27 federal units, located in the southern part of the Central-West Region, bordering five Brazilian states: Mato Grosso (to the north), Goiás and Minas Gerais (northeast), São Paulo (east) and Paraná (southeast); and two South America countries: Paraguay (south and southwestern) and Bolivia (west).

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Nakano School

The was the primary training center for military intelligence operations by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

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Nippon Kaigi

is Japan's largest ultraconservative and ultranationalist far-right non-governmental organization and lobbying group.

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Norio Suzuki (explorer)

was a Japanese explorer and adventurer.

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Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

is a 2021 adventure drama film directed by Arthur Harari and written by the director and Vincent Poymiro, with the collaboration of Bernard Cendron, freely inspired by the life of Hiroo Onoda.

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Philippine Army

The Philippine Army (PA) (Hukbong Katihan ng Pilipinas) is the main, oldest and largest branch of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), responsible for ground warfare and had an estimated strength of 143,100 soldiers The service branch was established on December 21, 1935, as the Philippine Commonwealth Army.

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Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Philippines campaign (1944–1945)

The Philippines campaign, Battle of the Philippines, Second Philippines campaign, or the Liberation of the Philippines, codenamed Operation Musketeer I, II, and III, was the American, Mexican, Australian and Filipino campaign to defeat and expel the Imperial Japanese forces occupying the Philippines during World War II.

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Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung primarily affecting the small air sacs known as alveoli.

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Presumption of death

A presumption of death occurs when a person is believed to be dead, despite the absence of direct proof of the person's death, such as the finding of remains (e.g., a corpse or skeleton) attributable to that person. Hiroo Onoda and presumption of death are people declared dead in absentia.

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Private (rank)

A private is a soldier, usually with the lowest rank in many armies.

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Private first class

Private first class (ère classe; Soldado de primera) is a military rank held by junior enlisted personnel in many armed forces.

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Ranch

A ranch (from rancho/Mexican Spanish) is an area of land, including various structures, given primarily to ranching, the practice of raising grazing livestock such as cattle and sheep.

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Santos-Dumont Merit Medal

The Santos-Dumont Merit Medal is a Brazilian decoration created to honor civilians and military, Brazilian or foreign, for outstanding services rendered to the Brazilian Air Force or in recognition of its qualities and value in relation to aeronautics.

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Second lieutenant

Second lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer military rank in many armed forces.

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Shizuo Yokoyama

was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II, who is noted for his role in the Battle of Manila during the final days of World War II. Hiroo Onoda and Shizuo Yokoyama are Recipients of Philippine presidential pardons.

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Shoichi Yokoi

was a Japanese soldier who served as a sergeant in the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during the Second World War, and was one of the last three Japanese holdouts to be found after the end of hostilities in 1945. Hiroo Onoda and Shoichi Yokoi are Formerly missing people, Imperial Japanese Army personnel of World War II, Japanese holdouts and missing person cases in Japan.

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St. Luke's International Hospital

is a general and teaching hospital located in the Tsukiji district of Chūō, Tokyo, Japan.

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Surrender of Japan

The surrender of the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, ending the war.

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Tenryū, Shizuoka

was a city located in western Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.

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Terenos

Terenos is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul.

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Teruo Nakamura

was a Taiwanese-Japanese soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army who fought for Japan in World War II and did not surrender until 1974. Hiroo Onoda and Teruo Nakamura are Formerly missing people, Imperial Japanese Army personnel of World War II and Japanese holdouts.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Mike Douglas Show

The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show that was hosted by Mike Douglas.

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The Twilight World

The Twilight World (German: Das Dämmern der Welt) is a book written by Werner Herzog.

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Tokyo

Tokyo (東京), officially the Tokyo Metropolis (label), is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous cities in the world, with a population of over 14 million residents as of 2023 and the second-most-populated capital in the world.

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Tomoyuki Yamashita

was a Japanese convicted war criminal and general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

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Type 99 rifle

The was a bolt-action rifle of the Arisaka design used by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda

Also known as Hirô Onoda, Hiroo Onada, Hirō Onoda, Kinshichi Kozuka, Lt Onoda, Onada Hiroo, Onoda Hirô, Onoda Hiroo, Onoda Hirō, Shōichi Shimada, Yuichi Akatsu, .

, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Mike Douglas Show, The Twilight World, Tokyo, Tomoyuki Yamashita, Type 99 rifle, United States dollar, Wakayama Prefecture, World War II, Wuhan, Yasukuni Shrine, Yeti, Yoshihide Suga, YouTube, 8th Division (Imperial Japanese Army).

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See also

Aftermath of World War II in the Philippines

Fugitives wanted by the Philippines

Japanese autobiographers

Japanese emigrants to Brazil

Japanese expatriates in the Philippines

Japanese holdouts

Missing person cases in Japan

People from Wakayama Prefecture

Recipients of Philippine presidential pardons

References