| LC control no. | n 50001904 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Onoda, Hiroo |
| Variant(s) | 小野田寬郎 |
| Biography/History note | Onoda Hiroo was a former Japanese army officer who after World War II hid in the Philippines, was found in 1974 and returned to Japan. |
| Located | Japan Brazil Philippines |
| Birth date | 1922 |
| Death date | 2014-01-16 |
| Place of death | Tokyo (Japan) |
| Profession or occupation | Soldiers Intelligence officers Farm managers Teachers |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | Suzuki, N. Daihōrō, 1974. His Waga kaisō no Rubangutō, 1988: t.p. (Onoda Hiroo) colophon (r; b. 1922) El país WWW site, Jan. 17, 2014 (Japanese former Lt. Hiroo Onoda; d. Thursday [Jan. 16, 2014], Tokyo, at 91; sent to the Philippine island of Lubang in 1944 as intelligence officer; lived hidden in the jungle there for three decades not knowing that World War II had ended, until his unexpected appearance in 1974; a year after his return to Japan he moved to Brazil where he managed a farm; in 1989, back in Japan again, he established a traveling camp for youth in which he taught courses on living in nature) |
| Associated language | jpn |
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