When did the last Japanese soldier from World War II surrender?

And no-one has made a movie of this?

Pentatonic Patty, Did he get his back pay from the Army?

Amazing story. I'm going to look him up to find out the rest of the story.

Cizinka, there is a movie and a book

Didn't he visit Gilligan's island a couple times? 🤣😂

Pentatonic Patty, there is a movie called Onoda: 10 thousand nights in the jungle

J, The Last Samurai is a different story. Onoda's story is in the book 'No Surrender' but no movie made yet as far as I can tell

When my dad and mom lived on Guam, my mom was riding a bus to the business out of the base. When she was done, she boarded the bus to go back to the base. 5 minutes later, the bus stopped and the doors opened to admit a man in a loincloth carrying a pole with his bayonet strapped to it. He wore a WW2 Japanese helmet and sat in the back. When they got the base, they stopped by security and the mp’s escorted the man to their office to be interviewed and interrogated. This was 1953. My family lived in a Quonset Hut with a wire screen overhead to catch lizards that dropped off from inside their ceiling. My mom also said she had a tub filled with water constantly in case my sister got into any army ant hills. Also, mines were very,very bad there. They always had a case of a child setting of a land mine. Bouncing Betty’s were the worst. You set them off, they go up 7 feet and boom! The air is full of shrapnel. Mom told me that my brother Bob had a friend that came over and wanted to know if he could play. She saw he was tossing something up and down. She asked if she could see this. He said sure. He gave it to her and it was a rusted pineapple grenade. The pin was almost gone. She knew if she held on to it, nothing would happen. She told Tommy to go get the MP’s and the bomb ordanance men. When they came, she gave them the grenade, and she asked Tommy to show her where he found it. He took them into the jungle., they found skeletons,ammunition,grenades, helmets.

This gives the word loyalty a new meaning

Pentatonic Patty, Gilligan's Island had an episode about this.

Player #25874027, Offered, but he refused..you only have to search his name!

Pentatonic Patty, Not sure if that link worked..look him up on Wikipedia! Yes, there is a film, and yes, he was offered money, which he refused!

Pentatonic Patty, about what? 29 years hiding?

J, The last samurai was set in the 19th century.

SOS, The last Samurai was set in 1876!

Sounds like a character in Michael Murpurgo’s book, Kensuke’s. Kingdom, a very good read for young adults.

Pentatonic Patty, Fine question. Thirty years

Think I may have seen the film! Incredible to think he was roaming around on his own out there for such a long time….the last samurai!