Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese Army officer who hid in the jungle for three decades, ... army uniform—stated that his mind had been on “nothing but ... he enlisted in the Imperial Japanese Army.

Hiroo Onoda, an Imperial Japanese Army officer who remained at his jungle post on an island in the Philippines for 29 years, ... In Manila, the lieutenant, wearing his tattered uniform, ...

The photos show that the two men held a rifle and a saber while wearing caps and uniforms of the Imperial Japanese Army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1931-45).

The war in the Pacific may have ended on Sept. 2, 1945, for just about everyone, but for Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer Hiroo Onoda, the conflict persisted for nearly three decades.