This picture taken on March 11, 1974 shows former Japanese imperial army soldier Hiroo Onoda (Center) walking from the jungle where he had hidden since World War II, on Lubang island in the Philippines.- AFP
Hiroo Onoda waged a guerilla campaign in Lubang Island near Luzon until he was finally persuaded in 1974 that peace had broken out, ignoring leaflet drops and successive attempts to convince him the Imperial Army had been defeated.
He died in a Tokyo hospital on Thursday of heart failure.
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