Former Japanese army officer Onoda dies

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken by a rescue team in March 1974 shows a former Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer Hiroo Onoda (L) receiving a pack of cigarettes from his former commanding officer on Lubang Island in the northwestern Philippines. Onoda, who remained on the island 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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