What is Hiroo Onoda?
[[File:Hiroo Onoda young.jpg|thumb|200px|{{Center|Hiroo Onoda in the mid-1940s.}}]] {{Nihongo|'''Hiroo Onoda'''|小野田 寛郎|Onoda Hirō}} (March 19, 1922 &ndash; January 16, 2014) was an [[Imperial Japanese Army]] [[Military intelligence|intelligence]] officer. He fought in [[World War II]] and [[Japanese holdout|did not surrender in 1945]]. After spending 29 years in the [[Philippines]], his former commander traveled there and took him away from duty. His [[autobiography]] was, ''No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War'', published in 1974. He was born in [[Kainan, Wakayama|Kamekawa]], [[Wakayama Prefecture]], [[Empire of Japan]]. Onoda died from [[heart failure]] due to complications from [[pneumonia]] on January 16, 2014 at [[St. Luke's International Hospital]] in [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]]. He was 91 years old.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/17/world/asia/japan-philippines-ww2-soldier-dies/|title=Hiroo Onoda, Japanese soldier who long refused to surrender, dies at 91|author1=Mullen, Jethro|author2=Wakatsuki, Yoko|author3=Narayan, Chandrika|publisher=[[CNN]]|date=January 18, 2014|accessdate=March 24, 2014}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Onoda, Hiroo}} [[Category:1922 births]] [[Category:2014 deaths]] [[Category:Japanese autobiographers]] [[Category:Japanese writers]] [[Category:Military personnel of World War II]] [[Category:Japanese military people]] [[Category:People from Wakayama Prefecture]] {{Bio-stub}}