i-Witness - Ang Huling Sundalong Hapon (Part 4 of 4)

"The Last Japanese Soldier"
Documentary by Howie Severino
Video Courtesy of GMA Network, Inc.

Japan surrendered in 1945, ending World War II. But the war continued for another 29 years in the mind of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese intelligence officer assigned to Lubang Island off Mindoro . When he finally emerged from the jungle in 1974 and returned to Japan , he was celebrated as a devoted soldier.

Howie Severino and his I-Witness team retrace some of Onoda's steps in the rugged forest of Lubang and imagine his life in the wild. But they also discover some ugly truths about what he did to survive and persist in his mission.

When the Allied Forces returned to Lubang Island in 1945, the Japanese military had no choice but to retreat. Hoping for a Japanese counterattack, Onoda and his men did everything to survive in the jungle and prepared themselves to fight till the end. Surrender was not an option.

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• Hiroo Onoda
• Lubang
• Japanese Straggler
• Mindoro
• i-Witness

[Miyaxki26]

IF THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT COUNTED HIROO ONODA A SECOND WORLD VETERAN, IN THE PHILIPPINES HE IS CONSIDERED A BEAST CRIMINAL, ROBBER AND THIEVE FOR THE REASON THAT AFTER THE WAR HE WAS ABLE TO KILLED INNOCENT FILIPINO FARMERS.

[TheCarlz333]

Bayani? Dapat Binitay yon ni Mcoy!!!

[stevendale211]

@nmyki (Part 2/2) There some Japanese who knows the truth in your history, you should set aside your Patriotism to be able to see that truth. I suggest you research well about you history during world war 2. Even until now, your country haven't apologize yet for what they have done to us. Only the Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines sent his PERSONAL APOLOGY just a couple of years ago. Japan should set aside his pride and accept its mistake so that the wound in the past will be heal.

[stevendale211]

@nmyki (Part 1/2) I will just correct you.. Japanese are the one that don't know the real history. The history of WW2 in Japan starts when the 2 Atomic bomb was dropped in 1945. But what happened during 1942? Japan bomb Pearl Harbor, killing almost 3,000 Americans and lest than an hour you bombed and invade the Philippines that is why Hiroo Onoda was in our country. To invade and conquer us! Your government just re-write your history to cover on how aggressive your country in the 1940's.

[stevendale211]

@sirizalangidolko tama ka bro, puro whitewash lang ang history ng Japan.. tama din ang sinbi mo na hindi itinuturo sa mga batang hapon ang pagiging agresibo nila noong world war 2. ang history nila ay basta nlang hinulog ang dalawang atomic bomb.. hehe., kawawa sila, mas mganda pa history natin sa kanila...

[jestian346]

ANG PAKINABANG NLNG NANG MGA HAPON SATIN..AY ANG KNILANG SEX SCANDALL..UN LANG.

[XxjHuNexX]

@nmyki bakit di mo n lng kasi sabihin na Illuminati ang gusto mong sabihin.

[XxjHuNexX]

nakakahanga tlga loyalty ng mga ni tatang no? imagine more than 30 years na nakipag laban sya for his homeland. hehe. kung ako sa knya nangasawa n lng ako ng pinay, nagpamilya at namuhay ng tahimik kaysa nmn sa sayangin ang oras sa mga giyera giyerang wala namang kabuluhan.

[sirizalangidolko]

@nmyki - You said you don't want arguments but your comments are argumentative.

Baka-ja nai!!! Japan teamed up with Hitler and Mussolini to rule the world.

We also hate imperialistic tendencies of those bully nations you mentioned so don't lecture us.

[Btw, why do you let your women be fucked by "butter" dogs??? Nande sonna-koto shita-no??? Your uncircumcised dicks are smaller than your dogs'??? ]

[sirizalangidolko]

Nakakalungkot isipin na di tinuturo sa kabataang hapon ang mga negatibong imahe ng kanilang Imperyo. Oo dapat kalimutan na ang nakaraan pero kung tatawagin tayong istupido ng mga kabataang hapon dahil di nabanggit sa aklat nila ang kanilang kalupitan noong digmaan, marapat lang na ipaalam din sa kanila ang katotohanan. Sa salita man lang maipagtanggol natin ang sarili natin. Basahin sa Wikipedia:

Japanese history textbook controversies