Hiroo Onoda
Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer
Died when: 91 years 303 days (1101 months)Star Sign: Pisces
Hiroo Onoda (Japanese: 小野田 寛郎, Hepburn: Onoda Hiroo, 19 March 1922 – 16 January 2014) was an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who fought in World War II and was a Japanese holdout who did not surrender at the war's end in August 1945.
After the war ended, Onoda spent 29 years hiding in the Philippines until his former commander travelled from Japan to formally relieve him from duty by order of Emperor Shōwa in 1974.
He held the rank of second lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Army.He was the second to last Japanese soldier to surrender, with Teruo Nakamura surrendering later in 1974.
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