Former Japanese army officer Onoda dies

Former Japanese army officer Onoda dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in March 1974 shows Hiroo Onoda (R) shaking hands with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos at Malacanang Palace in Manila, as the president's wife Imelda (L front) looks on. 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, died of heart failure at a Tokyo hospital on Jan. 16, 2014. He was 91.

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