Four Japanese soldiers, including Hiroo Onoda, who hid in the jungle of the Philippines and continued the operation for 29 years.
2022-01-10
Category:WWⅡ
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Mr. Onoda, who will be dispatched immediately after entering the military academy
Hiroo Onoda: Entered Kurume Daiichi Army Preparatory Officer School in January 1944. In December of the same year, he was assigned to the 14th Area Army Intelligence Department, which was in charge of the Philippine Defense Campaign, and was dispatched to the Philippines with the duties of a remnant and commander of the game. The division commander, Lieutenant General Shizuo Yokoyama, said, "Break the jade is not at all . Do your best for 3 or 5 years. I will definitely pick you up. Be done. After the end of the war, the Japanese government knew from information from the Philippines that Japanese soldiers were hiding in the Jaguru on Lubang Island, and various search activities were carried out, but the four Japanese soldiers did not appear.
Three Japanese soldiers hiding in Lubang Island together
Yuichi Akatsu: He left the group in September 1949 and surrendered to the US military in June 1950.
Shoichi Shimada: He died in a shooting battle with the Philippine police force on May 7, 1954, when he was shot through his eyebrows. He is 41 years old.
Kinshichi Kozuka: He was shot in the shoulder and died in a shooting battle with the Philippine police force in January 1972. He is 51 years old.
MEMO The Filipino government searched for Japanese soldiers, sometimes in a shooting battle.
29 years of hidden life continues even if you are alone
In 1974, Norio Suzuki, an adventurer inspired by search activities, visited Lubang Island and succeeded in contacting Onoda. In the conversation, Onoda tells him that he will surrender if instructed by his superior. Onoda, who had been hiding for 29 years, read newspaper articles left by the Japanese search team and knew information about Japan's postwar economic development. But then why he couldn't find the command system , and why he didn't command himself was the reason he didn't surrender.
Onoda will leave the jungle in response to an order to cancel the mission by his former superior, Taniguchi.
(1) Due to a great command, the armed group will be released from all operational actions.
(2) The staff member's group will be released from all duties according to Sakumei Ko No. 2003.
(3) Each unit belonging to the General Staff Department and the persons concerned are directly involved in the battle and the work is stopped. If you don't get it, you can contact the U.S. Army or the Philippine Army directly.
POINT Even after Mr. Kotsuka passed away and became alone, his hiding life continued, and his duties were canceled by his former superior.
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The postwar Asian order was created by the United States - Japan faced with the Hull note - The end of the China - centered idea of Asia.
Looking at the postwar period, it is clear that the international community wanted Asia to revolve around China. This can be explained by the fact that China is a permanent member of the United Nations. The United Nations was like an alliance of victorious nations, and its original purpose was to confront the enemy nations of Japan, Germany, and Italy, and to build world peace. China is not a victorious country. Japan was in a state of division and rule based on concessions from Europe, and Japan had no hope in the Sino-Japanese War. However, China is named in the Potsdam Declaration, Japan's surrender document.
The Cold War had already begun during the war, and the United States did not want to be left behind in the postwar international order. The United States only had interests in Asia such as the Philippines and had no interest in the war, but as the war was coming to an end, they requested participation in order to have a say in the post-war period. After leading the ABCD encirclement and bombing Japan with supplies, the Pacific War begins with the attack on Pearl Harbor, which is said to be a de facto ultimatum. That is the reason for America's participation in the war. Japan's fight in Asia was a fight against European colonialism, and the United States needed a cause. What was created there was a story called ``A fight for justice to defeat the Japanese invaders.'' The invaders of Asia for the past 400 years have been white people.
Japan's resistance was so strong that the United States finally asked for the Soviet Union to join the war. He asked Japan to revoke the Soviet-Japanese neutrality declaration and participate in the war. Roosevelt died there. Later, Truman became president and learned of the existence of atomic bomb research. The atomic bomb was a national secret known only to the president, not even the vice president. Truman's plans change and he chooses to drop the atomic bomb on Japan without waiting for the Soviet Union to enter the war. This is because the United States would have prevented a war in Asia by eliminating the Soviet Union. This has been revealed through the release of classified US documents, which revealed that the text that stated that the position of the Emperor would be preserved was deleted from the proposal for the instrument of surrender to Japan. Negotiations to end the war had already been carried out through the Soviet Union, and the Japanese side's demand was that the Emperor's status be preserved, which was written in the original surrender document.
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The Nanjing Military Tribunal ruled that more people than the population of Nanjing had been massacred, and after the war China was used as an important card in explaining its status as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council in the international community. China was positioned as both a war victim and a victor. South Korea and North Korea took advantage of this. They tried to take the position of the victorious country by claiming fictitious war damage even though they had not fought the war itself. South Korea still considers itself the Jew of Asia.
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Hong Si - yeon is a former Japanese Army lieutenant general who continued to use his Korean name - forcing him to change his name to Mr. So is a blatant lie.
Japanese soldiers from the Korean Peninsula
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``There have been many people who have died falsely since ancient times, and he doesn't want me to join them.''``Even if you try to dwell on it, you'll end up complaining and thinking you're guilty of losing the war.''
This is the death poem composed by Hong Siyung. He is a native of Gyeonggi Province who served in the Japanese army and rose to the rank of lieutenant general, the highest rank for a Korean.
Although he was intelligent and an excellent soldier, he did not declare his name change and took the name of the Korean peninsula (if he did not declare his name change, he would be registered with his original name).
South Korea claims that the Korean name was taken away from Japan by changing the So family name, but this is a complete lie. Changing your name is a self-reporting system and is not mandatory. If it was forced, then how could that person who disobeyed become a lieutenant general in the army with his Korean name?
Hong Si-yeon took a different path from his friends, telling the anti-Japanese forces on the Korean peninsula, ``Raising now will not lead to the restoration of Korea's independence, and that they should spend some time studying and developing their skills before fighting.''
Hong Si-yeon was assigned to the Philippines, where the war ended. After the war ended, he was tried as a war criminal and sentenced to death. There is not the slightest hint of resentment toward Japan or its annexation in his final words as he bids farewell to this world.
Hong Si-hyeong is currently enshrined at Yasukuni Shrine. Even if he returned to South Korea, he would be treated as a criminal for being pro-Japanese and his grave would be dug up many times, so it would be better if he was enshrined in Japan forever.
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In Europe, Nazi Germany invaded, and the Pacific War was a war between Japan and the United States, but what happened in Asia has been omitted. There are also stories of the Sino-Japanese War, the Manchurian Incident, and the enslavement of the Korean Peninsula, which never happened.
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This was the idea of Greater East Asia in confronting Western colonies. GHQ has historically erased the truth underlying these words and ideas. The intention is clear, Japan's war is simply a war of aggression, and the story is that America stopped it.
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Fujiwara declared as follows. ``If the Indian soldiers pledge allegiance to the liberation of their homeland and wish to join the Indian National Army, the Japanese military will stop treating them as prisoners of war, recognize their freedom to struggle, and provide them with full support.''
In February 1942, two days after the fall of Singapore to the Japanese army, approximately 50,000 Indian prisoners of war from the British and Indian forces gathered at Fara Park and were delighted by the speech given by Major Iwaichi Fujiwara. The 10,000-odd Indians who responded became the core of the later Indian independence movement.
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India was under British colonial rule for approximately 190 years, starting with the rule of the East India Company. In addition to heavy taxes, they were forced to grow commercial crops, leading to food shortages and repeated large-scale famines that killed around 30 million people.
While racial discrimination was commonplace, Japan aimed to liberate Asia and supported Indian activists seeking independence.
Major Fujiwara was selected for this mission in September 1941. Major Fujiwara, who went to Thailand, made steady contact with Mr. Pritam Singh, an Indian independence activist, through his thin network of contacts, and succeeded in recruiting hundreds of Indian soldiers from the British Indian army. At the end of 1941, at the call of Major Fujiwara, the Indian National Army was established, headed by Captain Mohansingh, an Indian soldier.
On August 15, 1947, India gained independence from British rule.