Brazil honors fool

[dimwit]

Brazil honors tenacious soldier who emigrated

RIO DE JANEIRO (Kyodo) Former army intelligence officer Hiroo Onoda has become the first Japanese to receive the Santos-Dumont Medal of Merit from the Brazilian air force, Brazil's highest civilian award.

Onoda, 82, was stationed on Lubang Island in the Philippines during World War II and continued living in the jungle nearly 30 years without knowing that the war had ended.

Onoda returned to Japan in March 1974 and emigrated to Brazil in 1975

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20041219a8.htm

The fact that the guy graduated as an intelligence officer tells you alot about both the Japanese Military and Education system.

[kurohinge1]

... The fact that the guy graduated as an intelligence officer tells you alot about both the Japanese Miltary and Education system ...

So he stayed here for another 3 decades:


Rather than returning to this:



That kind of foolishness I can admire.

[dimwit]

[So he stayed here for another 3 decades:


Rather than returning to this:



That kind of foolishness I can admire.

If this were you or I, I'd be inclined to agree but we are talking Japanese Military here. Not the most flexible of thinkers. I doubt very highly that he did any other than hiding, getting malaria, stealling from or perhaps killing the locals.

[kurohinge1]

[Skankster]

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I wonder how he took the news of the BOMB!!

[Taro Toporific]

Hiroo Onoda, Japanese soldier who took three decades to surrender, dies
theguardian.com, Friday 17 January 2014