Private Teruo Nakamura, a Taiwanese-born soldier (Amis: Attun Palalin), was discovered by the Indonesian Air Force on Morotai, and surrendered to a search patrol on December 18, 1974. Operation Downfall was to take place in two parts. The Asahi Shimbun/Getty Images. For some, it was too much to process, as years of indoctrination that Japanese soldiers simply did not surrender overwhelmed their coping capacity. Japanese military personnel who learned of the surrender had to first overcome the shock of defeat. Starting today, the 302 air force refused … Japanese holdouts (Japanese: ... Onoda refused to surrender until he was relieved of duty by his former commanding officer, Major Yoshimi Taniguchi, who was flown to Lubang to formally relieve Onoda. One such IJA member was Yuichi Akatsu, who spent a few years terrorizing Filipinos on Lubang with the aforementioned Onoda. Had the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki not brought Japan to her knees, the plans for Operation Downfall - the invasion of the Japanese home islands - were being prepared. Figure: the major period of the garden. But despite being left alone, Onoda refused to surrender and went on to evade dozens of Philippine army and police patrols. Not all Japanese soldiers who refused to surrender continued to fight or hide indefinitely. A Japanese soldier who hunkered down in the jungles of the Philippines for nearly three decades, refusing to believe that World War II had ended, has died in … Some members of the Japanese military, for a variety of reasons, refused to turn in their arms and surrender, and instead hightailed it to jungle and mountain hideouts. [8] Although just a private and subject to the orders of Onoda, Akatsu struck out on his own in 1949 and turned himself into the police some months later. 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