Former Japanese army officer Onoda dies

Former Japanese army officer Onoda dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in 2005 shows Hiroo Onoda. Onoda, a former Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who remained on Lubang Island in the northwestern Philippines for nearly 29 years without knowledge of Japan's surrender in World War II before returning to Japan in March 1974, died of heart failure at a Tokyo hospital on Jan. 16, 2014. He was 91.

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