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WWII Soldier Fought Until 1974 | Tales From the Bottle

Qxir | November 13, 2025



What’s better than winning a war? Well, not much really… But what’s better than losing a war? Pretending it never happened and continuing fighting!

“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 out 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 penultimate Japanese soldier to surrender, with Teruo Nakamura surrendering later in 1974.”

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  8. @xxfloppypillowxx

    November 13, 2025 at 3:33 pm

    Imagine what living 29 years believing you're in active war must do to your mind. Like this isn't living in a warzone for 3 decades, he actively thought he was still on duty for 30 years…. must be so exhausting.

  16. @민-c3t

    November 13, 2025 at 3:33 pm

    Nanjung Ilgi: War Diary of Admiral Yi Sun-sin

    UNESCO

    Memory of the World

    Imjin War

    The Attack on Pearl Harbor

    The Bombing of Chongqing

    Japan's hobby of war of aggression without declaration of war

    foreigners who defend the Nazis

    a Nazi-loving foreigner

    It's too weird.

    At that time, Japan was an Asian Nazi

    German Nazi = Japanese Empire

    Japan's war crimes competed against the German Nazis

    At that time, Japan was a twisted and evil country

    The Japanese military has slaughtered countless civilians in Asia

    Japanese civilians also slaughtered Koreans

    In short, Japanese civilians are also Nazis

    For one example 關東大虐殺 간토 대학살 Kanto Massacre

    The Japanese set up prisons in every city in Korea for torture and murder

    Seodaemun Prison

    Unit 731

    Nanjing Massacre

    Manila massacre

    Japan's historical distortion, historical revisionism, is too absurd

    Japan is the same democracy, but it distorts and hides its history

    Germany teaches history accurately

    The Japanese should emulate the Germans

    Come to Korea and study history

    There is a lot of historical evidence in Korea

    It's an accurate history

    Germany and Japan were allies in World War II

    As soon as industrialization was successful, Japan waged war and massacred countless civilians

    the Asian Holocaust

    the Asian Nazis

    I must say that American soldier was necessary and it saved at least 20x more lives considering that Imperial Japan never wanted to stop doing Asian holocaust

    we have to check the number of civilians killed by the Japanese military during that period

    Thank the American soldier for stopping the Asian Nazis

    Every country has a dark history. That's one thing. Whether they are ashamed and regret the wrong doings in the past and not cover it up is another

    The adults told me a lot of stories

    There are so many war crimes committed by Japanese soldiers

    But Japan denies history

    Japanese right-wing nationalists

    Yasukuni Shrine

    It's like calling Nazi Hitler a hero

    The Japanese should learn the right history instead of pretending to be war victims

    Japan should reflect on itself

    It's important to learn history correctly for future generations

    Koreans don't want compensation

    They want to learn the right history and truly reflect on each other and form a consensus

    As soon as Japan invaded Korea

    the murder of Empress Myeongseong

    At that time, the king of Japan was a god and the king of other countries was a beast

    The king of Japan was enshrined as a god, but after the war was defeated, he declared himself a human being

    Hirohito

    The Japanese are rewriting history by rewriting stories that didn't exist

    Historical revisionism is so absurd

    일본인들 근대화 광무개혁 중인 조선을 침략해서 최빈국 문맹인으로 만들었다

    학살, 고문, 한국어 금지, 한국어 말살, 한국 문화 말살, 강제노동, 강제 징용

    민족말살 ethnocide

    일본의 강제징용 노동으로 수백만 명이 맞아 죽거나 굶어 죽었다

    한마디로 한국에 살고 있는 일본인들만 편하게 살려고 했다 ……………………………………………………………………………

    한국을 수탈해서 한국 국민들은 굶어죽었다

    군산 놀러와 증거 그대로 보존해 있다

    다른 나라들도 일본인들의 자원이랑 쌀 수탈 때문에 많이 굶어 죽었다

    일본의 수탈 때문에 베트남은 200만 명 굶어 죽었다

    일본인들은 한국의 땅이랑 토지를 다 뺏었다

    일본인들은 전쟁 자금을 마련하려고 한국 국민들 숟가락

    농사짓는 농기구

    금속이랑 쇠를 모조리 다 뺏었다

    일본인들 정신 좀 차려 역사왜곡 그만해

    일본인들 일본의 왜곡된 역사를 진짜로 믿고 있다

    정신 차려 너무 한심하다

    일본이 아시아의 호랑이?

    한심해

    일본은 아시아의 너구리다

    한국 때문에 중국의 침략을 안 받은 나라가 일본이다

    한국은 중국이랑 전쟁을 자주 했었다

    일본은 아시아 최초로 근대화에 성공해서 2차 세계대전에서 다른 나라를 침략을 한 거다

    한국의 역사는 5000년 가까이 된다

    한국 와서 공부해 한국은 증거 위주 역사다

    고대 한국 때문에 발전한 나라 일본은 임진왜란으로 한국을 공격하였다

    그 후로 일본은 미국 때문에 발전하였지만 진주만 공습으로 미국을 공격하였다

    일본 너무 이상한 나라다

    범죄가 발생하면 해결하려고 노력을 해야지 숨기고 감추고 비겁한 행동이다

    아직까지 반성 안 하는 나라 현재 지금도 반성 없는 나라 일본

    Qing invasion of Joseon 丙子胡亂

    Imjin War

    Joseon suffered tremendous damage due to the invasion of China and Japan

    Koreans never forget war crimes

  21. @opieangst

    November 13, 2025 at 3:33 pm

    These 4/5 guys are proof (even in a pigment of what we would of actually seen) IF the U.S hadn't of dropped the bombs and had to main-land invade Japan. Even after a theoretical Allied "victory" we would of still seen MAJOR pockets of guerilla resistance for who knows how long!

  24. @Venom_Snek

    November 13, 2025 at 3:33 pm

    Japanese holdouts are so fascinating, the fact that two surrendered in the same year, thirty years after the war had already ended and it's entirely possible that there might have even been more that held out longer, is just absolutely insane. It was surprisingly common for a while too, between the forties and the seventies quite a few holdouts were just doing their thing, continuing to fight in WW2 long after everyone else had packed up their bags and went home. I might have to finally hunt down a copy of Onoda's book, I've been wanting to for ages now, it'd be really interesting to get a fuller picture of what his mindset was like the whole time.

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