The WWII Japanese Soldier Who Didn’t Surrender Until 1974

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    Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese intelligence officer in the Imperial Japanese Army, who refused to surrender until decades after World War II had ended.
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  • @Simplehistory
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  • @A_annoying_rodent
    @A_annoying_rodent 6 лет назад +11364

    Loyalty: 10/10.
    Determination: 15/10.
    Gather intelligence/informations: 0/10.

  • @MementoMori1001
    @MementoMori1001 4 года назад +6925

    sees children playing in the rice field.
    Onoda: smaller soldiers...

    • @elmundo2220
      @elmundo2220 4 года назад +78

      xddd

    • @777Plushy
      @777Plushy 4 года назад +189

      Onoda: *Sees Anyone* You Must Die For Breathing, That Is A War Crime.
      Me: Someone Get This Man Some Medicine & Psychiatric Help. & Perhaps Some Marijuana & Anime Desu-$#!t

    • @lesmiz11
      @lesmiz11 4 года назад +8

      O-o

    • @Awfulfeature
      @Awfulfeature 4 года назад +8

      Lmao

    • @MementoMori1001
      @MementoMori1001 4 года назад +2

      @@lesmiz11 ang ganda nyo po

  • @RedesCat
    @RedesCat 5 лет назад +7903

    His officer forgot for 30 years then one night in bed he's like 😮

  • @miked1765
    @miked1765 5 лет назад +3612

    This guy did not surrender. He was relieved from duty and went home.

    • @herrdoctor2895
      @herrdoctor2895 4 года назад +144

      He did not surrender. He took Vacation days from his work.

    • @usynnstradler
      @usynnstradler 4 года назад +30

      @johnmann they understand suicide though

    • @capncake8837
      @capncake8837 4 года назад +8

      usynn stradler Indeed.

    • @fromthe772
      @fromthe772 4 года назад +55

      Well he kinda did surrender when the Americans came to island and they ran away, then he did nothing for decades but kill innocent people, relieved from “duty” more like he was relieved from being a homeless murderer.

    • @aimaimaimmiamiamia6890
      @aimaimaimmiamiamia6890 3 года назад +42

      @@fromthe772 being routed doesn't mean you surrender

  • @jpaulc441
    @jpaulc441 5 лет назад +4786

    Some say there's an elderly Australian still fighting the Emu war...

    • @dagang1092
      @dagang1092 5 лет назад +211

      JPaul C The emus still won.

    • @neonicplays1364
      @neonicplays1364 5 лет назад +287

      The emus called in artillery support in the form of kangaroos

    • @estradaaaronjans.7084
      @estradaaaronjans.7084 5 лет назад +133

      @@neonicplays1364 And spies in the form of snakes and spiders

    • @neonicplays1364
      @neonicplays1364 5 лет назад +24

      @@estradaaaronjans.7084 yeah boi

    • @markcusgo6175
      @markcusgo6175 5 лет назад +35

      And that Australian is the camera man

  • @IronSquid501
    @IronSquid501 5 лет назад +2679

    "I am very competitive"
    That's one way of saying it, you fought a 6 year war for 35 years

    • @DZ-1987
      @DZ-1987 5 лет назад +30

      I'd call it tenacity.
      Or stubbornness.
      Mm... Stubbornness. An odd word, based on the spelling.

    • @jakebautista1390
      @jakebautista1390 4 года назад +8

      Correction 29 or 30 years.

    • @FreeStuffPlease
      @FreeStuffPlease 4 года назад +11

      I am very paranoid. Is more like it. There was multiple clues that the war was over.. including legitimate notes drop from a plane.

    • @stev6963
      @stev6963 4 года назад +4

      More like “I am a very clueless schmuck.”

    • @levi_athon9648
      @levi_athon9648 4 года назад

      Wildfires:yes...I shall
      Finish this mission

  • @PassTheSnails
    @PassTheSnails 4 года назад +1341

    Lmao his commanding officer woke up one night decades later in a cold sweat “OH NO i forgot about that one guy!!”

    • @ghoul8375
      @ghoul8375 4 года назад +47

      Then comes back to find out he’s killed over 30 innocent ppl in his so called mission this dude has to be bout the biggest dumbass in the world

    • @tomi9562
      @tomi9562 3 года назад +29

      @@ghoul8375 well he never got information that japan had surrendered-_-

    • @gamingtime305
      @gamingtime305 3 года назад +25

      He actually was the owner of a bookstore when the journalist/adventurer found him and told him of Oonda still living

    • @momotaro__
      @momotaro__ 3 года назад +10

      But srsly tho...how did they think that it's still a propaganda although the search party have send pictures of their family..

    • @gamingtime305
      @gamingtime305 3 года назад +8

      Momo Taro because they could have thought the allies caught their family? when it comes down to it Oonda was essentially brainwashed.

  • @Awfulfeature
    @Awfulfeature 4 года назад +2030

    “I think I forgot something.”
    “If you forgot it, it wasn’t important.”
    “Yeah you’re probably right.”

  • @mishkamee
    @mishkamee 6 лет назад +5689

    I wish girls were as loyal as this guy

    • @chrishernandez5965
      @chrishernandez5965 6 лет назад +167

      master munguku true fam

    • @notanonymous3976
      @notanonymous3976 6 лет назад +55

      XD

    • @gameexpert2011
      @gameexpert2011 6 лет назад +249

      My man, your comment is what the world needs. Girls + Loyalty = Happiness

    • @shaunwilliams3533
      @shaunwilliams3533 6 лет назад +156

      I wish my "friends" were as loyal as him

    • @bonebard6178
      @bonebard6178 6 лет назад +54

      I know right, every time i punch them for not doing what i say they always abandon me
      (I do not actually do this by the way)

  • @darkcrusher-jt1dr
    @darkcrusher-jt1dr 5 лет назад +2911

    This is why video games have a countdown time. So you dont have people hiding in the woods years after the objective is complete.

    • @pqbdwmnu
      @pqbdwmnu 5 лет назад +47

      Thanks for the fun fact

    • @mattimman1978
      @mattimman1978 4 года назад +86

      Thats why pubg has a blue zone for all those campers like this onota guy

    • @nativeoutlaw3181
      @nativeoutlaw3181 4 года назад +4

      Hahaha XD

    • @patrickneil7820
      @patrickneil7820 4 года назад +5

      red dead redemption 2 im guessing?

    • @johnpederson5873
      @johnpederson5873 Год назад

      Well you sir haven’t played dayz

  • @Dont-Watch-My-Vids-U-Regret-it
    @Dont-Watch-My-Vids-U-Regret-it 3 года назад +112

    The Philippines: exists
    Japanese soldier: *peace was never an option*

    • @cocomelon63
      @cocomelon63 2 года назад +12

      and i took that personaly

  • @not.arhaan9274
    @not.arhaan9274 5 лет назад +573

    Everyone: Japan surrendered you can leave the forest!!
    This guy: No, I don’t think I will.

    • @bendover5105
      @bendover5105 4 года назад +9

      read it with old captain america voice

  • @yummyyuuma
    @yummyyuuma 5 лет назад +1819

    His commanding officer be like, "oh yeah I forgot to come back for that one guy I left on that island" 30 years later.

    • @txttxt7482
      @txttxt7482 5 лет назад +88

      sat down watching tv 30 years later and it clicks you forgot to tell him lol.

    • @mr.exodus3844
      @mr.exodus3844 5 лет назад +162

      @@txttxt7482His wife " hey honey look something's on the TV!"
      * walks over to TV*
      "Oh fucking rice balls I knew I forgot something!"

    • @HarrisonJBounel
      @HarrisonJBounel 5 лет назад +31

      I'll go tell him right now, right after I take a nap.

    • @DZ-1987
      @DZ-1987 5 лет назад +24

      "Oh. Yabbe."
      ~His words when he realized.

    • @HarrisonJBounel
      @HarrisonJBounel 5 лет назад +5

      Probably went back to look for his favorite ball point pen he lost and bumped into him. (Hey, I forgot all about telling you! By the way have you seen my pen?)

  • @d.r.2907
    @d.r.2907 5 лет назад +3157

    He must've been really upset when he realized he was still fighting a ghost enemy for about 30 years

    • @rickyrivas4787
      @rickyrivas4787 5 лет назад +293

      he wasted his golden years doing nothing

    • @Jay-hb2xf
      @Jay-hb2xf 5 лет назад +222

      ricky rivas And killing the innocent

    • @lenhatminh9696
      @lenhatminh9696 4 года назад +45

      Kirtz Numba #1 he said he had never regretted

    • @sleepshouter5017
      @sleepshouter5017 4 года назад +295

      He did donate to Philippine schools and other charity organizations. Which I guess is his way of redeeming himself for killing innocent Philippine locals.

    • @brightlamp2549
      @brightlamp2549 4 года назад +41

      Kirtz Numba #1 the 30 people he murdered also were pretty upset

  • @spaceshuttledoorgunner125
    @spaceshuttledoorgunner125 4 года назад +167

    Had the honor to meet him and his wife in Tokyo a few years before his passing. It was one of the only moments in my life that I spoke to history. When he said I left a Kimono Japan and came back to Jeans Japan, he was really shocked by the change of culture. May he rest in peace.

  • @edwardguillen4381
    @edwardguillen4381 4 года назад +267

    His “enemy” fought 2 wars by the time he found out it was over lmao

    • @rajeshgeorge540
      @rajeshgeorge540 3 года назад +2

      LMFAOOOO!!!

    • @KnowYourRole93
      @KnowYourRole93 2 года назад +4

      And lost both

    • @thunderbird1921
      @thunderbird1921 2 года назад +14

      @@KnowYourRole93 Korea was a moderate victory, pal. South Korea was saved, the main objective of the Korean War campaign was achieved. We stopped the Communists. Vietnam was a defeat, but Korea was NOT.

    • @w1z4rd9
      @w1z4rd9 2 года назад

      @@KnowYourRole93 Korea was a stale.

    • @user-gx4cd1jb9h
      @user-gx4cd1jb9h 2 года назад

      @@thunderbird1921 It's not victory, is stale.

  • @aryansingh2459
    @aryansingh2459 5 лет назад +4621

    Imagine this guy leaving a fascist and militaristic society and coming back to a land full of anime and hi tech Western civilisation. Talk about a culture shock.

    • @Alv11269
      @Alv11269 5 лет назад +563

      Japan was not fascist but ultra-nationalist, there are a few key differences. Just have a read for their former constitution.

    • @rikzalmuhammad1731
      @rikzalmuhammad1731 5 лет назад +171

      Ultra-nationalist for sure.

    • @jackw8338
      @jackw8338 5 лет назад +285

      In 1975 anime was just starting to get popular and was vastly different from what we have now. He would have been seeing stuff like Astro boy and other early mech shows (gundam still didn’t exist yet). None of the endless bland high school animes.

    • @DZ-1987
      @DZ-1987 5 лет назад +68

      OI.
      I'll have you know, that Girls Und Panzer is a great anime. Exaggerated a bit, but mostly right.
      *GIANT CITY CARRIERS, DRIFTING AND TURBO TANKS*

    • @ifrazali3052
      @ifrazali3052 4 года назад +51

      Western Civilization???
      It is science and technology and has nothing to do with west

  • @kpc420_
    @kpc420_ 6 лет назад +1485

    Everyone was in 1974 mean while this guy still in 1945

    • @Simplehistory
      @Simplehistory  6 лет назад +188

      Blast from the past

    • @kpc420_
      @kpc420_ 6 лет назад +122

      Damn that’s a fast reply

    • @sunnyreactionsedits4300
      @sunnyreactionsedits4300 6 лет назад +5

      Simple History Pin my comment pls :)

    • @tlshortyshorty5810
      @tlshortyshorty5810 6 лет назад +23

      It's like the first Jumanji, but it's real.
      Japanese Robin Williams?

    • @Gillan1220
      @Gillan1220 6 лет назад +15

      Guess he never saw an M16, an F-4, and a UH-1 Huey

  • @davidtepes7173
    @davidtepes7173 5 лет назад +2638

    Girls:i CaNt WeAr ThE SaMe CloThEs FoR 1 DaY
    Boys:yeah,i can wear the same chlotes for 40 years

    • @davidtepes7173
      @davidtepes7173 4 года назад +11

      @dinkleberg dingus i forgot about this comment but nice

    • @davidtepes7173
      @davidtepes7173 4 года назад +7

      @Jason Rasmussen It is a joke lol

    • @ParseeAikoku
      @ParseeAikoku 4 года назад +11

      I really dislike this joke its make feel like racist gender

    • @firstescobar6863
      @firstescobar6863 4 года назад +23

      @@ParseeAikoku racism against women?

    • @ParseeAikoku
      @ParseeAikoku 4 года назад +1

      @@firstescobar6863 anybody i don't like

  • @Ratkill
    @Ratkill 5 лет назад +188

    "I am very competitive"
    Yes, yes you are

    • @herrdoctor2895
      @herrdoctor2895 4 года назад +6

      He plays CSGO for years but still don't reach Global Elite.

    • @xeraphyx7903
      @xeraphyx7903 3 года назад

      @@herrdoctor2895 underrated reference

  • @et3747
    @et3747 6 лет назад +4890

    Imagine spending almost 3 decades in a foreign jungle, unaware that the war ended year prior. What a guy

    • @Santiago-xw7dk
      @Santiago-xw7dk 6 лет назад +401

      Talking to only three other people and spending two years by yourself

    • @archravenineteenseventeen
      @archravenineteenseventeen 6 лет назад +72

      early version of NEET

    • @LordVader1094
      @LordVader1094 6 лет назад +125

      et 37
      And killing/stealing from local villagers to survive.

    • @cgarc131
      @cgarc131 6 лет назад +53

      et 37 it sounds like a twilight zone episode

    • @racermigs1
      @racermigs1 6 лет назад +173

      If there's anything undeniable impressive of him, it's his survival skills. He would probably survive the apocalypse.

  • @arisart22
    @arisart22 6 лет назад +2380

    He also came back to Lubang island and built schools and apologized to the locals.

    • @dariusbautista2247
      @dariusbautista2247 6 лет назад +34

      Talaga? Weh!?

    • @arisart22
      @arisart22 6 лет назад +288

      darius bautista Probably a long time ago when he was still alive. My coworker is from Lubang. He's the one who told me.

    • @youbitch4295
      @youbitch4295 6 лет назад +238

      arisart22 that's true, he apologised and donated a school there..

    • @parkermaisterra8532
      @parkermaisterra8532 6 лет назад +395

      Makes sense, can't even imagine the guilt he must have felt knowing that those "disguised allied soldiers" really were just innocent civilians.

    • @frankjesusd
      @frankjesusd 5 лет назад +59

      must've sucked for everyone there

  • @rudysmith1445
    @rudysmith1445 5 лет назад +172

    Guys, if you look up Hiroo Onoda, you'll learn two things:
    A: He was not the last Japanese soldier to stop fighting, but in fact the penultimate holdout.
    B: There were quite a few hold-outs that survived and surrendered much later than the war.

    • @jgc4818
      @jgc4818 4 года назад +39

      Rudy Smith I’ve often wondered if there were any that fought into the 80’s or 90’s and just died out there alone, it’s quite a terrifying thought.

    • @noboty4168
      @noboty4168 4 года назад +7

      I know this is months old, but do you have more info about these?

    • @Trillioons
      @Trillioons 4 года назад +1

      Li Shengshun same

    • @Ultimaton100
      @Ultimaton100 4 года назад +18

      Actually, Hirō Onoda was the second-longest of the Japanese holdouts. Only Tureo Nakamura, who was captured a few months later in Indonesia on December 18th, 1974 held out longer.

    • @suzukirider9030
      @suzukirider9030 2 года назад +2

      @@Ultimaton100 ...that we know of

  • @elijahking728
    @elijahking728 4 года назад +519

    so, technically ww2 ended in 1974?

    • @sooryan_1018
      @sooryan_1018 3 года назад +38

      ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • @sujeetsinghgrewal4807
      @sujeetsinghgrewal4807 3 года назад +81

      It could also be that ww1 and WW2 are the same war with a. Ceasefire between them thus it may or may not have started from 1914 to 1974

    • @islotiqq7451
      @islotiqq7451 3 года назад +9

      Nah.

    • @ankletaker7990
      @ankletaker7990 3 года назад +48

      Actually, human history is just one big world war with just ceasefires in between.

    • @oz4lex676
      @oz4lex676 3 года назад +5

      God told me to come here and say: please dont start an argument chain or else im leaving you behind when i show you extraterrestrials

  • @allenmckinney9533
    @allenmckinney9533 5 лет назад +2993

    His uniform lasted that long but I can't get a pair of jeans to last a year.

    • @engihere5434
      @engihere5434 5 лет назад +145

      Wtf type of jeans u buying?

    • @_MaZTeR_
      @_MaZTeR_ 5 лет назад +154

      I'm not sure what's your definition of "lasting long", but if I remember correctly, this guy had to repair his clothes with whatever he could find and it still wasn't enough.

    • @frijidmeatwad5253
      @frijidmeatwad5253 5 лет назад +143

      Made in Japan vs made in Mexico

    • @tHeInEvItAbLePaRtY
      @tHeInEvItAbLePaRtY 5 лет назад +76

      Ever considered a career change to one that doesn't involve getting on your knees so often?

    • @DZ-1987
      @DZ-1987 4 года назад +2

      To answer your question, sir Engi.
      Tattered.

  • @DLBBALL
    @DLBBALL 6 лет назад +5886

    >Leaves honorobru Japan
    >Comes back to anime Japan
    I can see why he left.

    • @ericward8459
      @ericward8459 6 лет назад +389

      Dude Lmao
      Yeah, I can see how that would be a bit unsettling.

    • @dragonsmith9502
      @dragonsmith9502 6 лет назад +700

      if you left a country made up of honor and determination and came back to fucking anime, suicide wouldn't be out of the question.

    • @sonogamirinne7172
      @sonogamirinne7172 6 лет назад +11

      Dude Lmao nice b8 =]]

    • @seymourbrown4540
      @seymourbrown4540 6 лет назад +133

      Dude Lmao yup. Japan 100 years ago was WAAAAAAAAAAAY different than now

    • @noobjo.mp4196
      @noobjo.mp4196 6 лет назад +71

      this is his reaction when he returned ruclips.net/video/yk7IDVzLiQo/видео.html

  • @cheryl9809
    @cheryl9809 4 года назад +283

    How did he still have several rounds of ammo after all these years?

    • @hiddentreasure2161
      @hiddentreasure2161 4 года назад +145

      The Fillipino police was short-supplied and still used old rifles so he probably captured ammo from skirmishes with the police

    • @bluebatison1112
      @bluebatison1112 4 года назад +99

      He practiced "One shot, 1 kill."

    • @HennessyRose
      @HennessyRose 4 года назад +21

      he had 500 ruounds

    • @oliviersavard8676
      @oliviersavard8676 4 года назад +38

      Careful ammunition management and captured supplies, most likely. The 7.7 Arisaka wasn't rare during the war.

    • @abhyudaysinghparmar6055
      @abhyudaysinghparmar6055 4 года назад +23

      He was given enough ammo to fight as much as 5 years of war against allied

  • @hmshood9212
    @hmshood9212 3 года назад +51

    It’s a testament to how well made the Arisaka rifles were that it lasted almost thirty years.

    • @jakekaywell5972
      @jakekaywell5972 2 года назад +18

      Facts. Despite being horrendously outdated by late WWII, the Type 38 and Type 99 Arisaka were high quality pieces. I once read a piece of long-since declassified Army intelligence that stated that Arisaka rifles had not only the best accuracy out of all other nation's bolt-action rifles tested, but that the bolts themselves were ridiculously strong.

    • @capncake8837
      @capncake8837 Год назад +3

      I’m sure that he also maintained it rigorously.

  • @Polpiv4tifish
    @Polpiv4tifish 6 лет назад +3466

    One heck of a movie could be made out of this

    • @nickroe1
      @nickroe1 6 лет назад +68

      Polpiv4tifish so true

    • @Nugcon
      @Nugcon 6 лет назад +24

      yep

    • @dominicqcavezza4771
      @dominicqcavezza4771 6 лет назад +124

      Directed by steven speilberg

    • @kf8113
      @kf8113 6 лет назад +14

      i think Shinya Tsukamoto did a film about this, actually.

    • @Vizzer96
      @Vizzer96 6 лет назад +43

      There's an episode of Archer about it in around season 6 or 7 I believe

  • @merubindono
    @merubindono 6 лет назад +2311

    When your friends cancelled the party and forgot to tell you.

  • @MrEvanfriend
    @MrEvanfriend 5 лет назад +656

    He was an enemy to be certain. But an enemy who showed personal heroism, and one that I can respect. I'm a former US Marine - the Japanese were the hardest enemy the Corps has ever faced. And if I'd seen Lt. Onoda before he died, I would give him a salute.
    He may have deluded himself past any rational point, but he was a hard man to be certain, and he deserves some respect for that.

  • @rizzgod-wj6ty
    @rizzgod-wj6ty 4 года назад +1716

    Onoda: my country must have changed so much let's see what happened after 30 years
    *See's anime girl's screaming yamete oniichan*
    Onoda: forest was better

    • @user-is3yn7xr4c
      @user-is3yn7xr4c 4 года назад +43

      Hentai is one of God's gift

    • @nemesisstars7531
      @nemesisstars7531 4 года назад +12

      Onada be like:bruh

    • @ghjpkshdgtjdgvbzm
      @ghjpkshdgtjdgvbzm 4 года назад +9

      i go to japan every year and i never heard that

    • @formula1340
      @formula1340 4 года назад +46

      Maybe that really is the reason why he'd gone to brazil

    • @atr_g10
      @atr_g10 4 года назад +33

      Thats why he moved to brazil

  • @chunkitychanka533
    @chunkitychanka533 5 лет назад +6754

    Sees anime. Walks back into the forest

    • @Ganyuuxshu
      @Ganyuuxshu 5 лет назад +184

      anime is a masterpiece.

    • @Ganyuuxshu
      @Ganyuuxshu 5 лет назад +47

      @Rafael Montiel good troll m9

    • @seantylerfermin4927
      @seantylerfermin4927 5 лет назад +320

      @@Ganyuuxshu Anime is cancer

    • @Ganyuuxshu
      @Ganyuuxshu 5 лет назад +84

      @@seantylerfermin4927 nahh i don't care,
      i still love anime.

    • @seantylerfermin4927
      @seantylerfermin4927 5 лет назад +247

      @@Ganyuuxshu Nah, Anime is still cancer

  • @nerdsoft9964
    @nerdsoft9964 6 лет назад +2328

    Next time: The Italian Soldier Who Didn't Switch Sides for 30 Minutes

    • @linklgas1691
      @linklgas1691 6 лет назад +49

      lol

    • @dingo1547
      @dingo1547 6 лет назад +211

      We both know that is not possible.

    • @francescolombardo6467
      @francescolombardo6467 6 лет назад +5

      The partigian or the fascist ?

    • @graziavoto2064
      @graziavoto2064 6 лет назад +43

      That proves how ignorant you are. After 8th september 1943 italian soldiers didn't know who were the enemies, some of them joined in partisan groups while other continued to fight with nazis in the RSI (Italian social republic: a Germany's puppet state led by Mussolini). Not all the italians switched side as you said, only the king Vittorio Emanuele III and the italian soldiers who were in the south

    • @kunfang5604
      @kunfang5604 6 лет назад +16

      Grazia Voto chill he was joking

  • @danielcastillo591
    @danielcastillo591 5 лет назад +312

    Japan: We surrender!
    This dude: Well yes, but actually no

  • @carnoch
    @carnoch 4 года назад +25

    This dude took Never Surrender To a whole new Level,

  • @trapezeable
    @trapezeable 6 лет назад +754

    So he missed 4 years of the seventies? what a lucky guy

    • @forslavjo
      @forslavjo 6 лет назад +20

      Moon Gazer he missed the better half of that decade...

    • @advaitiyer13
      @advaitiyer13 6 лет назад +1

      Why can you Explain

    • @omar-ew6rf
      @omar-ew6rf 6 лет назад +1

      Advait Iyer look up the history of the 70s fam lol you learned about it in High School unless you’re not there yet

    • @advaitiyer13
      @advaitiyer13 6 лет назад

      sad boy omar Are you talking about the Vietnam war because I know History and I have passed my high school and I am studying in Jr College

    • @timmmahhhh
      @timmmahhhh 6 лет назад +7

      His partner in the rice field gave a new meaning to Disco Inferno.

  • @xbaumann
    @xbaumann 6 лет назад +3092

    He was one committed soldier. I respect that aspect of him.

    • @Just_Soufian
      @Just_Soufian 6 лет назад +106

      he killed 30 civilianl bruh

    • @altus2447
      @altus2447 6 лет назад +221

      Stefan Ryder Just because you might hate someone, doesn’t mean you can’t respect them or something they’ve done.

    • @michaelholt1480
      @michaelholt1480 6 лет назад +110

      Stefan Ryder yes he did kill 30 people but he didn't know the war was over

    • @Just_Soufian
      @Just_Soufian 6 лет назад +33

      I Respect Isis Too For Defending Their Believes O_O !! double standards hypocrite's .

    • @johncook1885
      @johncook1885 6 лет назад +7

      xbaumann how can you respect someone who murders civilians for no reason at all?

  • @sammydelorenzi
    @sammydelorenzi 4 года назад +768

    *Kills 30 innocent people*
    Philippine government: You were delusional, so I’ll let that one slide

    • @drianmortiz9375
      @drianmortiz9375 4 года назад +60

      The Philippine government has intervene in the case of that japanese straggler onoda, so he never put on trial for the atrocities that he have done, killing those innocent civilians because he assume that they where possibly american informers, if the local people in that town has given a chance to file a charge against him, perhaps he have been sentence for the killings of those innocent people.

    • @denelloangelo
      @denelloangelo 4 года назад +41

      @@drianmortiz9375 ye its actually understandable because he thought that the war is still carrying on

    • @lordhosseinlh
      @lordhosseinlh 3 года назад +2

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @RandomGuy-ej9gr
      @RandomGuy-ej9gr 3 года назад +50

      Unbelievable how he wasn’t trialed. Complete psycho and fanatically devoted to his order.

    • @RandomGuy-ej9gr
      @RandomGuy-ej9gr 3 года назад +29

      denello angelo that’s not a fucking excuse, being so blind you can’t see the war has ended

  • @4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz
    @4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz 3 года назад +34

    Toward the end of his life Onoda said that he felt immense regret about wasting those 30 years. He said he'd been an idiot, and that looking at pictures of himself taken immediately after his surrender made him feel like he was looking at a monster.

  • @racermigs1
    @racermigs1 6 лет назад +2336

    Technically speaking, he didn't surrender at all. He was ordered to stand down by his commanding officer.

    • @eveei
      @eveei 6 лет назад +90

      he had to surrender his weapons and equipment

    • @racermigs1
      @racermigs1 6 лет назад +232

      True. But according to his autobiography, his commander met him in the jungles wearing his uniform, and read an "official order from the imperial japanese emperor" that "all units stationed on Lubang are to cease fighting".
      So, yeah. In that exact moment it technically isn't a surrender.

    • @bigironenthusiast9343
      @bigironenthusiast9343 6 лет назад +29

      J.M. Mencias which led to the same result as a surrender.

    • @klaust3307
      @klaust3307 6 лет назад +206

      The technical difference between standing down and surrendering would have meant quite a lot to someone with his mentality and background.

    • @itsres384
      @itsres384 6 лет назад +1

      stephan m He handed it down to the Philippine gov't, through President Marcos.

  • @carlodelacruz8161
    @carlodelacruz8161 5 лет назад +603

    Im from Lubang. The cave he used to live at was named after him. Onoda cave. One of the tourist spot at Lubang.

    • @eduardolima3990
      @eduardolima3990 5 лет назад +25

      O visited his farm on Brazil, a Very large one :v

    • @zawarudo271
      @zawarudo271 5 лет назад +13

      Bro,
      Pupunta ako doon,
      Sa ibang araw

    • @blackmask1937
      @blackmask1937 5 лет назад +8

      I have a question? Is Lubang means Hole?

    • @joycorpus4124
      @joycorpus4124 4 года назад +6

      @@blackmask1937 Lubang is a name of a island

    • @blackmask1937
      @blackmask1937 4 года назад +15

      @@joycorpus4124 yeaa In my Country Lubang is mean hole I wonder if there is similarities between Tagalog and Indonesian Language

  • @MicmicCustodio
    @MicmicCustodio 5 лет назад +48

    I was born and lived in Lubang Island. We made a tourist attraction that explain and show where Onada live and hid for almost 30yrs.

  • @ryanfritz8903
    @ryanfritz8903 4 года назад +19

    I wonder if this was the inspiration for a part in Red Dead 2 where you come across a Civil War soldier who still thinks the war is going on in 1899 and thinks the year is 1862 lol

  • @Gillan1220
    @Gillan1220 5 лет назад +2225

    I’d imagine he was fighting policemen armed with M-14s and M16s while he continued using his Arisaka.

    • @valothebrute4028
      @valothebrute4028 5 лет назад +305

      The police were mostly using pistols and old rifles

    • @gammarays666
      @gammarays666 4 года назад +157

      Until today, the 1911 is a standard issue side arm to Philippine armed forces.

    • @crazyeyes8962
      @crazyeyes8962 4 года назад +101

      @@gammarays666 Even grease guns are still used by their military

    • @omeee6064
      @omeee6064 4 года назад +79

      Im a Pilipino and Yes all of that about our Equipment problems are true it is because of colonization that happened one after another Spainiards, Japanese, Americans made our Country weak.

    • @SoldierOfFate
      @SoldierOfFate 4 года назад +58

      Wouldn't be surprised. WWII-era bolt action rifles are extremely reliable and are built to stand both the test of time and abuse.

  • @sionmarak1916
    @sionmarak1916 6 лет назад +971

    HIDE AND SEEK CHAMPION

  • @ILIKEARMYS
    @ILIKEARMYS 4 года назад +191

    US soldiers: We got trees speak in Vietnamese.
    Filipino soldiers and police: Hold my beer, we got trees speak in Japanese.

  • @TwigPB
    @TwigPB 4 года назад +31

    Onada: *goes back to japan and sees anime*
    Also Onada: [visible confusion]

    • @Rex-X-Dark
      @Rex-X-Dark 4 года назад +5

      That's why he left for Brazil

  • @MrX-xo3fb
    @MrX-xo3fb 6 лет назад +198

    "I am very competitive" that's an understatement my guy 😂

  • @64maxpower
    @64maxpower 6 лет назад +308

    Wouldn't you think after maybe 20 years he'd ask himself I wonder how those guys are doing over on the mainland?

    • @TheMento98
      @TheMento98 5 лет назад +7

      With Steel dedication like that? Nah.

    • @lol70721
      @lol70721 5 лет назад +13

      he went insane on the island. So its no wonder he didnt came to his senses and see that he was over reacting to everything with his paranoia

  • @BigT_04
    @BigT_04 4 года назад +269

    *kills innocent villagers*
    "I am very competitive"

  • @thalmoragent9344
    @thalmoragent9344 4 года назад +122

    4:50 Man, that must suck. As cool as it is to essentially see your homeland as an entirely new and improved place, Traditional Values gone can be pretty sad and weird, as it is in our culture, with the lack of traditional views of our current generation.

    • @agentsquid9079
      @agentsquid9079 4 года назад +11

      Yeah traditional values do teach moral things and living at that time then switching to the modern era must be rough.
      At least he didn’t have to SUDUKO himself for the emperor.
      For me traditional values is mostly good, like family cultures and codes of honor, but the ones that are too extreme to me must be dropped. Honor, Service, Loyalty is good but if your like hellbent on serving others and not yourself I view that as a negative.

    • @thalmoragent9344
      @thalmoragent9344 4 года назад +9

      stalled carton4
      Yeah man, I agree with you. I feel a lot of people drop tradition just for the sake of dropping it because they feel like it’s not “progressive enough” or whatever.
      Certain aspects of society have gotten worse because of it, and only a few good handful of things have ever come from it.
      Granted tho, yeah, at least he didn’t have to *Suduko* himself, so that’s one tradition that I can live with being left in the past! 😅👏🏾

    • @agentsquid9079
      @agentsquid9079 4 года назад +2

      The Avatar They at least should’ve kept ninjas.

    • @briaormead4239
      @briaormead4239 4 года назад +2

      @@agentsquid9079
      Ain't that seppuku? I thought sudoku was a game played with numbers or something.

    • @briaormead4239
      @briaormead4239 3 года назад +2

      @@n.m.8802
      Lol :D progression is da wae

  • @MustacheCashStash125
    @MustacheCashStash125 5 лет назад +1355

    When your friends cancel the party and forget to tell you.

  • @dwarvenmoray
    @dwarvenmoray 6 лет назад +1091

    God knows what that uniform smelt like

    • @Jack-sf3yi
      @Jack-sf3yi 6 лет назад +71

      THE GAMING ALIEN SNIPER your bois cologne

    • @dissecti0n
      @dissecti0n 6 лет назад +87

      THE GAMING ALIEN SNIPER probably still smells better than you

    • @thorzcunstellarfighter3724
      @thorzcunstellarfighter3724 6 лет назад +152

      I guess he probably washed it in a river sometimes

    • @prettyviolence
      @prettyviolence 6 лет назад +14

      Ross0706 smelled*

    • @lln5996
      @lln5996 6 лет назад

      Pretty Violence I'm pretty sure he was right. Your correction changes nothing.

  • @tardarsauce1842
    @tardarsauce1842 4 года назад +9

    Leaflet: The war ended!
    Hiro Onoda: *_L I A R_*

  • @carvideos5276
    @carvideos5276 5 лет назад +11

    He was fighting for so long so that means he was so loyal to his country. It’s very heart breaking to see soldier which is still fighting even if no orders were given, he just keeps fighting/defending because he knows what being a soldier really is. Big respect for him.

    • @GlidezukaReporting
      @GlidezukaReporting Год назад +1

      But when he returned and watch schoolgirl bang an octopus, he left Japan again

  • @basic7756
    @basic7756 6 лет назад +2708

    This guy makes history fun

    • @idjdjdjrr3706
      @idjdjdjrr3706 6 лет назад +6

      basic I know

    • @x4kua
      @x4kua 6 лет назад +14

      it’s true, I found the account yesterday and just been watching so much.

    • @ad0b071
      @ad0b071 6 лет назад +9

      Killing 30 civilians?

    • @Goffdude24
      @Goffdude24 6 лет назад +5

      DoomyDragon55 Hopefully he means the narrator.

    • @jacobb.9181
      @jacobb.9181 6 лет назад +37

      History is always fun, depending on how you learn and what you're learning

  • @amphibious3381
    @amphibious3381 6 лет назад +413

    Reminds me of that flash back in family guy where George bush tried to go to Vietnam but was informed it was over
    "George the war is over.."
    "Get outta here, you serious?"
    "Yeah it's 1981"
    "Oh gee- oh wow, so I'm way late.."

    • @clonecommanderbly7408
      @clonecommanderbly7408 6 лет назад +4

      Felipe Velasquez i remember that episode

    • @firstlastnamehere4895
      @firstlastnamehere4895 6 лет назад +1

      lol u win the comment section

    • @consicedisc6961
      @consicedisc6961 6 лет назад

      This reminds,me of the origins characters like take,Dempsey nikolai richtofen

    • @Luis_Facil
      @Luis_Facil 6 лет назад

      Felipe Velasquez that was a episode from family guy whats it called?

    • @Usushs
      @Usushs 6 лет назад

      consicedisc ᴛᴀɴᴋ

  • @BrumEldar
    @BrumEldar 5 лет назад +4

    This guy is an example of loyalty and honor

  • @MyTownDrunk
    @MyTownDrunk 3 года назад +2

    About a month long fan here. Thanks for all the great work and research. I appreciate the knowledge and love your channel. Good day to all.

  • @rohanjindal5945
    @rohanjindal5945 6 лет назад +2186

    And that ladies is why you need a safe word

  • @jaywilliams9294
    @jaywilliams9294 6 лет назад +204

    Yeah well that's nothing I was sent outside the class once and would not come back in even when I was asked.....

    • @notanonymous3976
      @notanonymous3976 6 лет назад +6

      Jay Williams i wish i was that brave XD

    • @jacksonpettit9423
      @jacksonpettit9423 6 лет назад +4

      LMAOTE

    • @rockgod6180
      @rockgod6180 6 лет назад +1

      Jay Williams Damn bro, you're such a badass. I would never wanna mess with you

  • @keshavkothari__
    @keshavkothari__ 4 года назад +21

    This is genuinely the most amazing war story I've ever heard. I just ended up watching the german movie "The Captian", and I thought that was the best WW2 story. But this. This is brilliant 🙌🙌

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 4 года назад +73

    This is what happens in an RPG when you get lost doing side quests and forget about the main objective.

  • @Ms_Vylet
    @Ms_Vylet 6 лет назад +621

    Imagine how confused he was when he came back
    "wuh where did the sun beams go"
    *picks up an assault rifle* "Woah cool"

    • @Thegreat-vx2lk
      @Thegreat-vx2lk 6 лет назад +64

      Captain John *sees anime* wat is this girlish cartoon?

    • @Ms_Vylet
      @Ms_Vylet 6 лет назад +5

      LOL

    • @AleF202
      @AleF202 5 лет назад +56

      Farul Ikhwan *Sees American businesses and brands everywhere*
      I have the urge to commit seppuku now.

    • @GusCraft460
      @GusCraft460 5 лет назад +5

      Farul Ikhwan Nani?

    • @loonloon6860
      @loonloon6860 5 лет назад

      They have real soul in it they just don't know when it rest

  • @equarg
    @equarg 6 лет назад +1234

    This soldier only passed away a few years ago.
    He lived to his 90's.
    He lived an died a fighter.
    RIP sir.

    • @unclebillybob1359
      @unclebillybob1359 6 лет назад +95

      KILLS 30 INNOCENT PEOPLE

    • @adam_clown
      @adam_clown 5 лет назад +110

      Uncle Billy Bob He didn’t do it for fun. He was trained for Guerrilla Warfare and was ordered to harass the “enemy” until he was ordered to Stop. That’s exactly what he did and this is coming from a Filipino.

    • @alejocmoralesjr.1057
      @alejocmoralesjr.1057 5 лет назад +13

      He’s no Sir of my

    • @spinyslasher6586
      @spinyslasher6586 5 лет назад +12

      Uncle Billy Bob which like almost every war veteran did.

    • @Greenierw
      @Greenierw 5 лет назад +9

      And his country gets nuked

  • @plcthelegacy4131
    @plcthelegacy4131 Год назад +18

    Imagine being a Japanese Soldier, trained in a dogmatic and brutal warrior way for most of your life. And you return to Hello Kitty.
    That's a huge culture shock.

  • @oliversherman2414
    @oliversherman2414 Год назад

    I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!!!!

  • @jebronlames4559
    @jebronlames4559 6 лет назад +474

    *The last guy alive in your squad*

  • @Doge-rw6ht
    @Doge-rw6ht 6 лет назад +1120

    Imagine leaving Imperial Japan and coming back to Anime Japan...

  • @Vanic00
    @Vanic00 4 года назад +22

    This man is one of my personal heroes. As a Veteran, I can understand his determination to keep fight for one's nation, even to the point of become the last remnant of that nation. A Cause is not lost, so long as just one continues to fight for it.

    • @alexcapy-gamingchannel6438
      @alexcapy-gamingchannel6438 3 года назад +1

      thank you

    • @xninewxw7559
      @xninewxw7559 2 года назад +5

      Bro he killed 40+ people

    • @Vanic00
      @Vanic00 2 года назад +1

      So? What's your point?

    • @DanielGomez-xo1sh
      @DanielGomez-xo1sh 2 года назад +1

      @@Vanic00 Just to know, how many Inocent Civillians did you kill?

    • @Vanic00
      @Vanic00 2 года назад

      @@DanielGomez-xo1sh probably best I don't disclose that info, I wouldn't want to offend.

  • @miahutman4615
    @miahutman4615 3 года назад +2

    Now this is one loyal soldier all soldiers should be like him

  • @Simplehistory
    @Simplehistory  6 лет назад +1382

    What do you think of Hiroo Onoda and his fellow soldiers? Could they have reasoned that the war was long over?

    • @General-F
      @General-F 6 лет назад +70

      Simple History I say that guy must not heard the bomb I wonder why.

    • @HMSHOOD1920
      @HMSHOOD1920 6 лет назад +13

      Simple History no.

    • @offchance789
      @offchance789 6 лет назад +127

      Two things I learned, the first is people always believe they're more special than they really are, and second Onodo lived with more meaning and purpose until 1974 that few of us will ever achieve.

    • @mr.borkborkrandom3412
      @mr.borkborkrandom3412 6 лет назад +23

      Simple History I cant blame then I would have done the same

    • @that1guy335
      @that1guy335 6 лет назад +93

      I wonder if his commanding officer knew or had simply forgot about Onoda and his men. Maybe at the end of the war he was not in a position to contact them.

  • @donaldbrotherstr7484
    @donaldbrotherstr7484 6 лет назад +483

    Imagine fighting for your country with your life. Trying to play smart while also trying to survive a foreign forest. It's been a decade. Your team full of your gun buddies are dead and you are now alone. But your hope still remains. You stay on that mountain for 29 years without showering or eating proper food. Now think again before mocking this man, a true "soldier".

    • @renzo00
      @renzo00 6 лет назад +44

      well he killed innocent civilians for food

    • @LuizAlexPhoenix
      @LuizAlexPhoenix 6 лет назад +23

      Pretty sure that isn't the meaning of a soldier. He wasn't a professional fighter serving the State, just a stubborn old man with too many issues, blades and guns.

    • @Mr-Ad-196
      @Mr-Ad-196 6 лет назад +3

      Renzo Flordelis he thought them as a allied soldier amazingly this video already explained it

    • @Mr-Ad-196
      @Mr-Ad-196 6 лет назад +2

      Luiz Alex Phoenix .......the video already explained it............

    • @staryucheny6698
      @staryucheny6698 6 лет назад +4

      MR AD so what? That still doesn’t make it okay.

  • @Saul30119
    @Saul30119 4 года назад +14

    His leader: Go home ! The war is over ! We surrendered !
    Him: Hold on, the whole operation was your idea.

  • @SilencedButNotForgotten
    @SilencedButNotForgotten 4 года назад +9

    What you left out: He later returned to Japan because he saw the increasing destruction of the youth and the high suicide rates. He set up camps in which he gave youngsters training and tips on how to be happy, confident and aware of their value in the world.

  • @dinkinthepink882
    @dinkinthepink882 6 лет назад +325

    His job was an intelligence officer, yet he never found out about the war ending. INTELLIGENCE OUT OF 10

    • @michealkasey2292
      @michealkasey2292 6 лет назад +15

      He was smart, just that he was extremely stubborn.

    • @michealkasey2292
      @michealkasey2292 6 лет назад +23

      It clearly said he thought it was just propaganda to lure them out. He didn't know about the atomic bombs that landed on Japan and his superiors never came back and so it's understandable as to why he was so stubborn.

    • @viysnjor4811
      @viysnjor4811 6 лет назад +36

      It's easy to make fun of him for that when you have the internet now, go get lost in the jungle on some isolated island with no form of communication and try to keep up with world news.

    • @kpmh2001
      @kpmh2001 6 лет назад +4

      The reason he was suspicious was that he knew the allies were feverishly good at deception

    • @justjocin
      @justjocin 6 лет назад +2

      *INTELLIGENCE 100*

  • @smonyboy
    @smonyboy 6 лет назад +1052

    The irony of being an intelligence officer lol

    • @flynn659
      @flynn659 6 лет назад +41

      well he did a good job as the intelligence came to him.

    • @Timmering
      @Timmering 6 лет назад +4

      smonyboy ikr lol

    • @BrettonFerguson
      @BrettonFerguson 6 лет назад +1

      He probably fed off of Big Brown Buffaloes.

    • @nethanelmasters5170
      @nethanelmasters5170 6 лет назад +1

      smonyboy. Like Al Gore was in Vietnam.

    • @noobjo.mp4196
      @noobjo.mp4196 6 лет назад +2

      Im @N inT3lLiGEncE 0fFiCeR
      *doesnt knew that the war has ended*

  • @gidmichigan1765
    @gidmichigan1765 4 года назад +29

    Commanding Officer: I promise to come back in 2 or 4 years.
    *30 years later*

  • @worldagency
    @worldagency 4 года назад +5

    I blame everything to Major Taniguchi for not returning back. Promises are meant not to be broken.

  • @xyon9090
    @xyon9090 5 лет назад +325

    *He's more loyal to his country*
    Compared to most relationships of today.

  • @greekww2message305
    @greekww2message305 6 лет назад +262

    How much ammo and medical supplies they had that amazing that at least 1 survive

    • @HarroKitteh
      @HarroKitteh 6 лет назад +57

      The looted villages so they could of gotten ammo and medical supplies.

    • @Demicleas
      @Demicleas 6 лет назад +7

      Achely follen comrads ammo easy

    • @mandalorian_guy
      @mandalorian_guy 6 лет назад +5

      They weren't exactly using up what ammo they had. They probably had a few hundred rounds total.

    • @School_Days_Kotonoha_Katsura
      @School_Days_Kotonoha_Katsura 6 лет назад +3

      Nick Message They didn't spill all ammo.

    • @Gillan1220
      @Gillan1220 6 лет назад

      Many were lying around post war

  • @Wh1stle_03
    @Wh1stle_03 5 лет назад +36

    Dude only had a few more decades to go before he would've become the Japanese Captain America

    • @ItPreach
      @ItPreach 4 года назад +8

      Captain Japan

  • @Haxurs
    @Haxurs 3 года назад +8

    4:34 those killer smile of ferdinand marcos makes me shivers to fear ngl.

  • @scottbeater-man3714
    @scottbeater-man3714 6 лет назад +333

    This man had allot of heart to keep going for all those years....a true soldier.

    • @raiders7449
      @raiders7449 6 лет назад +27

      So in your mind, a true soldier is a brainwashed paranoid man who kills civilians for thirty years?

    • @ym6294
      @ym6294 6 лет назад +6

      More like a war criminal if he didn't kill any civilians then. I will say he's a true Soldier but he's a war criminal and should be killed for killing those unarmed civilians.

    • @scottbeater-man3714
      @scottbeater-man3714 6 лет назад +16

      what makes this man a true soldier was his strong will and spirit.

    • @Godzilla691138MW3
      @Godzilla691138MW3 6 лет назад +2

      Why are all of you typing as if you're all kids? How old are all of you?

    • @aminechei8509
      @aminechei8509 6 лет назад +2

      War criminal ??? Lol his a soldier and that's what he's supposed to do war isn't a game and war has its own rules

  • @ww2soldier87
    @ww2soldier87 6 лет назад +343

    This is the best history channel ever! Awesome simple history

  • @pointly
    @pointly 4 года назад +12

    If I'm not mistaken, he was given a Peace Medal by the Emperor himself, for his service and loyalty.

  • @burtvincent1278
    @burtvincent1278 10 месяцев назад +2

    I served on Guam in 1969. A few years later they captured a Japanese soldier tending his fish traps. He watched the B52s coming and going thinking the war with Japan was still ongoing. He didn't know it was actually two wars later.

  • @TechSpec814
    @TechSpec814 6 лет назад +77

    Almost 30 years in combat after the war ended? Almost like a time traveler from the past. I mean, for him he will still living in 1944 while everyone else was in 1975. So much has changed since then.

    • @commando7238
      @commando7238 6 лет назад +5

      Tremolo814 he died in 2014 may he meet the rest of his Squad

  • @datrellkhalidkhalid8555
    @datrellkhalidkhalid8555 6 лет назад +176

    HIDE AN SEEK MASTER

    • @TheSamuelOwens
      @TheSamuelOwens 6 лет назад +1

      What kind of hide and seek do *you* play?

    • @derphinderp9400
      @derphinderp9400 6 лет назад +1

      datrell khalid Khalid father of Osama bin laden

  • @zorama7679
    @zorama7679 5 лет назад

    His loyalty is out of this world.... His loyalty is truely respectful.

    • @Siegberg91
      @Siegberg91 5 лет назад +2

      And sadly missplaced

  • @Roaden
    @Roaden 3 года назад +17

    My Country must have Changed
    Sees Anime Girls
    Onoda: I walk back into forest

    • @mosaimirak977
      @mosaimirak977 3 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/exAt7LG-QPc/видео.html
      Take look at this

  • @A.H.goose1
    @A.H.goose1 6 лет назад +211

    That moment when you wake up late for work

  • @leqlerq3493
    @leqlerq3493 6 лет назад +549

    Funny thing is that he is an _intellegence_ officer :p

    • @Atuyalfatih
      @Atuyalfatih 6 лет назад +7

      LOL

    • @okutann
      @okutann 6 лет назад +115

      Even more ironic is that you point it out but misspell it.

    • @radioactiverat8751
      @radioactiverat8751 6 лет назад +7

      False intelligence is always a probability

    • @chrisc1168
      @chrisc1168 6 лет назад +2

      Japy McTojo here forgot to use his intelligence

    • @thecrippledpancake9455
      @thecrippledpancake9455 6 лет назад +19

      He was very intelligent, and is the most badass person I’ve ever heard of. Shouldn’t make fun of him for serving his country for almost 30 years!

  • @RayT70
    @RayT70 4 года назад

    For some reason this story really touches me 👍

  • @x.a.n.a.9397
    @x.a.n.a.9397 3 года назад +5

    4:52 I can only imagine the sheer disappointment on his face when he see young Japanese men hugging body pillows and be like I forgot and sever for you and this is how you repay me

    • @cherri5222
      @cherri5222 4 месяца назад

      It was 1974 not the 2000s-

  • @CocoHutzpah
    @CocoHutzpah 6 лет назад +246

    Actual Rambo was Japanese. Neat.

  • @joyboysplanet
    @joyboysplanet 2 года назад +10

    when you kill the entire team in elimination but can't find the last enemy

  • @redmondpeters7162
    @redmondpeters7162 3 года назад +5

    Some soldiers have such dedication to their country it's amazing.