“Lieutenant Onoda, Sir, reporting for orders.”

— Hiroo Onoda

No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War, tr. Charles Sanford Terry (1999), ISBN 1557506639; after meeting his superior, Taniguchi, the first time in 30 years.

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Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer 1922–2014

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