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  Hiroo Onoda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda (小野田 寛郎 Onoda Hirō; born March 19, 1922) is a former Japanese army intelligence officer who was stationed on Lubang Island in the Philippines.
Onoda and several other men, however, hid in the dense jungle.
Lieutenant Onoda emerged from the jungle 29 years after the end of World War II, and accepted the commanding officer's order of surrender in his dress uniform and sword, with his Arisaka rifle still in operating condition, 500 rounds of ammunition and several hand grenades.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hiroo_Onoda   (458 words)

  
 Finals: Michihisa Onoda vs. Kazuhiko Mitsuya
Onoda chose to sacrifice the Rager, and tried to keep the pressure up by playing Ravenous Rats, but they were stopped by two Force Spikes.
Onoda attacks with the Swarm, bringing Mitsuya to 1 life, and the next swing forces Mitsuya to get rid of his hand and graveyard to keep the Psychatog alive.
Onoda's offensive stalls at this point as he hits a deep land pocket in his deck, and the 'tog starts slowly nibbling on his life total.
www.wizards.com /default.asp?x=sideboard/jpnat02/final   (1607 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Onoda was named General Motors vice president of worldwide communications in June 1996 after serving as vice president of corporate communications for Levi Strauss & Co. since 1989.
Onoda is credited with creating a communications organization at Levi Strauss & Co. that is widely recognized as one of the most outstanding in corporate America.
Onoda holds a bachelors degree in communications from the University of Michigan, a law degree from Indiana University and a master's degree from Medill that he received in 1977.
www.medill.northwestern.edu /alumni/honors/profiles/onoda.html   (220 words)

  
 Thirty Years in the Jungle! Could you do it?
Hiroo Onoda was sent to the jungle of Lubang Island of the Phillippines in December of 1944.
Onoda survived by setting up a series of hideouts on the 74 square mile island, and by stealing food (the island was occupied), and making sure his caches of live ammo were kept intact.
Onoda and the others would build a shelter during the wet season, and then just sleep in the open during the rest of the year.
www.primitiveways.com /jungle_30_years.html   (3042 words)

  
 CNN - Former WWII soldier visits his Philippine hideout - May 26, 1996   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Onoda came out of hiding on March 10, 1975, after his former commanding officer traveled to Lubang to meet with him.
The governor of the province that includes Lubang, Josephine Ramirez Sato, said by honoring Onoda, her people were announcing to everyone that all is forgiven.
Relatives of seven people Onoda is accused of killing gathered at a Japanese-Filipino friendship monument during his visit, demanding compensation.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/9605/26/philippines.straggler   (397 words)

  
 NetVillage : Hiroo Onoda
In 1944, Lt. Hiroo Onoda was sent by the Japanese army to the remote Philippine island of Lubang.
As Onoda and his comrades were getting ready to leave on their separate missions, they stopped by to report to the division commander.
Onoda first saw a leaflet that claimed the war was over in October 1945.
www.netbros.com /HirooOnoda   (1516 words)

  
 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onoda
On December 26, 1944 (age 23), Hiroo Onoda was sent to the small island of Lubang Island, approximately seventy-five miles southwest of Manila in the Philippines.
On February 20, 1974, Onoda encountered a young Japanese university dropout named Norio Suzuki who was traveling the wold and told his friends that he was “going to look for Lieutenant Onoda, a panda, and the abominable snowman, in that order.
Onoda's father travels to Lubong with a Japanese deligation to attempt to convince Onoda the war is over and to come home.
www.wanpela.com /holdouts/profiles/onoda.html   (1194 words)

  
 Onoda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hiroo Onoda, Japanese soldier stationed in the Philippines during World War II who refused to surrender until 1974
Onoda, Yamaguchi, a city in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Onoda   (95 words)

  
 Kenneth V. Honn Research Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Onoda, J.M., J.R. Jacobs, J.D. Taylor, B.F. Sloane and K.V. Honn.
Onoda, J.M., K.K. Nelson, J.D. Taylor and K.V. Honn.
Onoda, J.M., Sloane, B.F. and Honn, K.V. Antimetastatic therapy with thromboxane synthase inhibitors.
www.med.wayne.edu /cancerbiology/faculty/honn.htm   (8735 words)

  
 Onoda Hiroo - Japanese army intelligence officer
Second Lieutenant Onoda Hiroo (小野田 寛郎;), a Japanese army intelligence officer, was stationed on Lubang Island in the Philippines when it was overrun by United States forces in February 1945, towards the conclusion of World War II.
Found by a Japanese student, Onoda still refused to believe that the war was over until he received orders to lay down his arms from his superior officer.
Lieutenant Onoda emerged from the jungle 29 years after the end of World War II, and accepted the order of surrender in his dress uniform and sword, with his 25 calibre rifle still in operating condition, 500 rounds of ammunition and several hand grenades.
www.japan-101.com /history/onoda_hiroo.htm   (383 words)

  
 Far Outliers
On December 26, 1944 (age 23), Hiroo Onoda was sent to the small tropical island of Lubang Island, which is approximately seventy-five miles southwest of Manila in the Philippines.
Onoda and his men quickly concluded that Akatsu was now working for the enemy.
Onoda nursed him back to health, but on May 7, 1954, Shimada was killed instantly from a shot fired by another search party sent in to find the men.
faroutliers.blogspot.com /2004/08/last-japanese-holdouts-in-philippines.html   (664 words)

  
 Book Review: No Surrender
Hunted in turn by American troops, the Philippine army and police, hostile islanders, and eventually successive Japanese search parties, Onoda had skillfully outmaneuvered all his pursuers, convinced that World War II was still being fought and waiting for the day when his fellow soldiers would return victorious.
Onoda came from an ordinary background, but his story is an incredible testament to the human spirit.
A soldier who fought and survived the war's longest, loneliest battle, Onoda became a hero to his people and his account of events, first published in Japan in 1974 and in English in 1975, has enjoyed an approving audience ever since.
www.pacificwrecks.com /reviews/thirty.html   (427 words)

  
 Hide and Seek
Onoda is well-known to Japanese people as a war hero and as a symbol of the Japanese drive to never give up.
Onoda was so well-trained that he refused to belive that the many legitimate rescue attempts, flyers, and newspapers which were air-dropped, actually signified the end of the war.
Onoda grew up in a broken home, which was considered to be taboo at the time.
www.giantrobot.com /issues/issue07/hs/hsmain.html   (2078 words)

  
 Royal Gazette   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The story of 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese soldier who continued to fight the Second World War for almost 29 years after it ended, is the most famous of the stories of the Japanese holdouts.
Onoda believed that the Philippine villagers he encountered were enemy spies or troops in disguise, and fired on them.
Perhaps Bermuda's Onoda Syndrome sufferers know that the war is over too, but having spent all their lives battling against racism, cannot bring themselves to believe that most whites now consider fls to be their equals.
www.theroyalgazette.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050513/OPINION/105130119   (710 words)

  
 Background
Onoda remembers that sayings such as "one hundred million souls dying for honor" were popular before he left for Lubang.
Onoda's own mother gave him an ancestor's dagger, before he left for Lubang Island, in case he had to commit suicide to avoid surrender.
Onoda later said that "it was [his] pride in being an officer that sustained [him] during thirty years on Lubang" (Onoda 25).
www.wfu.edu /academics/history/StudentWork/AsiaPacificWar/asia-pacific-jenni/beforethewar.htm   (778 words)

  
 Hiroo Onoda
Onoda and his men quickly concluded that Akatsu was now working with the enemy and retreated to the other side of the mountain.
Onoda and Kozuka were positive that the Japanese would be landing on the island any day and that control would be taken back from the Americans.
Onoda could not see the speaker’s face from his great distance and concluded that the Americans had gone to a really great length to trick him this time.
home.nycap.rr.com /useless/onoda   (1897 words)

  
 Van E. Harl: Last To Surrender
Of course Onoda was part of the Army of Japan that brutally invaded and occupied the Philippines.
Onoda lives on a cattle ranch in Brazil.
Onoda returned to Japan in the 1990s as a guest speaker, at the very Army officer training facility where he himself was trained.
www.iwvpa.net /harlve/last_to_.htm   (744 words)

  
 Localization of Nitric Oxide Synthases and Nitric Oxide Production in the Rat Mammary Gland -- Onoda and Inano 46 (11): ...
Onoda M, Djakiew D (1993b) A 24,500 Da protein derived from rat germ cells is associated with Sertoli cell secretory function.
Onoda M, Inano H (1997) Distribution of casein-like proteins in various organs of rat.
Onoda M, Pflug B, Djakiew D (1991) Germ cell mitogenic activity is associated with nerve growth factor-like protein(s).
www.jhc.org /cgi/content/full/46/11/1269   (5267 words)

  
 Background
Hiroo Onoda's thirty-year fight created an international sensation in 1974 and an ongoing debate about whether his guerilla warfare can be justified.
Onoda, himself, reminds the world that a lifetime can futilely be given to a failing and, perhaps, unjust cause.
Onoda's thirty years in the jungle continue to illustrate the truth that a seemingly average citizen can be swept away in the maneuverings of an unchecked government.
www.wfu.edu /academics/history/StudentWork/AsiaPacificWar/asia-pacific-jenni/afterthewar.htm   (859 words)

  
 No Surrender
Hiroo Onoda holds the honor of the last Japanese soldier to surrender, finally packing it in in 1974.
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Hiroo Onoda, 74, a former Japanese Imperial Army officer, leaves Narita airport near Tokyo for his first trip to the Philippines in 22 years to visit his former island hideout in the western Philippines.
Onoda hid in the jungles of Lubang Island for about 30 years after the end of World War II.
home.xnet.com /~warinner/surrender.html   (218 words)

  
 Tetsuya ONODA
Onoda, T. Tsujioka, R. Kakinuma, and S. Yamano, “Service-uniform ONU based on Low Cost Audio AD/DA Converters and CDM with Novel Code Word Sets”, to be published in IEICE Trans.
Onoda, T. Tsujioka, T. Yoshikawa, and T. Kanada, “Netwarp: A Gigabit Throughput File Transfer Scheme”, OAN (8th Hybrid and Optical Access Network Workshop, 9.3 Mar.
Onoda, and T. Tsujioka, “The Netwarp Service on UNIX System and its Application to a High Speed Distributed File System”, to be presented in ICCC99 (Int.
www.cs.cmu.edu /People/tonoda   (554 words)

  
 UIC College of Nursing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Onoda has left her mark on the nursing profession.
Onoda graduated from the University of Colorado as one of the first pediatric nurse practitioners in the country.
Onoda for her work with the international students who have studied with us.
www.uic.edu /nursing/ghlo/is/chieko.htm   (158 words)

  
 Chapter Reports File #005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Onoda discussed problems with using such materials, especially the possibility of difficult language or topics which may be unfamiliar to students, and he stressed the importance of teachers helping students to prepare for viewing by providing information on specific topics, background knowledge, and language forms.
Onoda used a number of short video clips from news stories as well as an instructional video from an ESL tape on telephone message-taking.
While requiring more preparation time than more typical modes of instruction, Onoda was able to show the various benefits of using AV materials and his presentation was full of useful ideas for using this medium to enhance the learning (and teaching) experience in the classroom.
www.jalt-publications.org /tlt/chaprep/show_rep.php?id=5   (304 words)

  
 the war's over, but MD continues the fight
On March 10, 1974, on the island of Lubang in a remote part of the Philippine archipelago, Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese Imperial Army was ordered to surrender by his commanding officer, Major Taniguchi.
In February 1945, Lieutenant Onoda was part of a Japanese contingent that fought American troops in a four-day battle on Lubang.
Lieutenant Onoda spent the next 30 years engaged in guerilla fighting in the mountains against the villagers of the island.
www.chiroweb.com /archives/17/09/08.html   (640 words)

  
 Sun.Star Cebu - Commentary: Japanese straggler’s book
Onoda as a commander let the two soldiers die in vain in a meaningless shootout with Philippine soldiers, who were trying to determine their whereabouts.
What I would like to denounce most is the fact that Onoda, in his book, never apologized to the Filipinos, especially those in Lubang Island.
In contrast, Onoda became the sole hero among those who fought in the Philippines simply because he successfully hid there for 30 years.
www.sunstar.com.ph /static/ceb/2003/10/12/oped/hiroyuki.eguchi.html   (520 words)

  
 Medill - Northwestern University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Onoda set a goal of being the head of public relations for a Fortune 50 company by the age of 40 and would only work for major brands and companies, all of which he said he managed to achieve time after time.
Stressing the importance of mentoring, Onoda said he has worked with and mentored young, talented communications professionals who have gone on to become heads of communications departments at companies such as Raytheon.
Onoda also cited networking, leadership skills, business acumen and communications skills as important criteria for success.
www.medill.northwestern.edu /medill/inside/news/_onoda_gives_career_advice_to_imc_students_in_talk_that_nobody_ever_gave_him.html   (522 words)

  
 Damn Interesting » The Soldier Who Wouldn't Quit
Nineteen years after Shimada was killed, on October of 1972, Onoda and Kozuka had snuck out of the jungle to burn some rice which had been collected by farmers, in an attempt to sabotage the "enemy's" food supply.
When Onoda returned to meet with Suzuki and his old commander, he arrived in what was left of his dress uniform, wearing his sword and carrying his still-working Arisaka rifle, 500 rounds of ammunition, and several hand grenades.
Onoda was part of a special Intelligence unit that was trained as "stay behinds".
www.damninteresting.com /?p=253   (2986 words)

  
 Dr. Yusuke Onoda
Plants growing near natural CO -emitting springs give a unique opportunity to study evolutionary response to elevated CO found some CO springs that are suitable to this purpose in the northern part of Japan, and plants growing there have been used for several research programs.
Onoda Y, Hikosaka K, Hirose T (2005a) Seasonal change in the balance between capacities of RuBP carboxylation and RuBP regeneration affects CO response of photosynthesis in Polygonum cuspidatum.
Onoda Y, Hikosaka K, Hirose T (2005b) The balance between RuBP carboxylation and RuBP regeneration: a mechanism underlying the interspecific variation in acclimation of photosynthesis to seasonal change in temperature.
www.bio.uu.nl /~boev/staff/personal/yonoda/yonoda.htm   (620 words)

  
 Amazon.com: No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War: Books: Hiroo Onoda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
This is the true story of 2nd Lt Hiroo Onoda, who, on orders from his commanding officer retreated with a small band of men into the jungle to carry out guerilla attacks against returning American troops and the Filipinos.
Onoda had recieved orders to continue the fight, even if it meant assuming the role of a guerilla fighter until he was formally relieved by a ranking officer.
The psychology of it all is fascinating; he constructed a model of how the war was going on and examined all the evidence he had in light of this unshakeable belief.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0870112406?v=glance   (2353 words)

  
 Sensei's Library: Onoda Chiyotaro
Onoda Chiyotaro (1896-1944) was a Nihon Ki-in professional Go player who reached 7-dan in 1939.
Earlier Onoda was with Hoensha, and also at Igo Doshikai.
Onoda was with Kiseisha, but returned to the Nihon Ki-in in 1928.
senseis.xmp.net /?OnodaChiyotaro   (78 words)

  
 Welcome to Onoda Art specializing in California Plein-Aire original oil paintings and teaching oil painting technique.
Teresa Onoda's aggressive brush strokes and bolder-than-life colors have caught the eye of many established art-collectors frequenting galleries in the booming northern California communities of Lafayette and Walnut Creek, near the ocean in Carmel, and in trendy Vail, Colorado.
Teresa Onoda paints primarily among the rolling hills of the East Bay and the vineyards of the Wine Country.
Given the strong hold of the arts in California and the striking natural coastline and mountains this generation-spanning school of painting is certain to continue.
www.onodaart.com /artist/index.php   (532 words)

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