Hiroo Onoda

Like it's just awful all round for everyone I bet.

So the, the Wikipedia article is for a guy called Hiroo Onoda, who was a Japanese soldier who served as a second lieutenant in the Imperial Japanese Army.

One of the last Japanese holdouts, he continued fighting until 1974.

My God.

Some of you might have heard of him.

Hiroo Onoda is his name.

And so he was sent out in the Second World War onto a Philippine island.

As you know, Japan lost the war.

And the reason I shot that show was, at the time, I kept finding myself in these battles with Bcash and BSV people and who were insisting that they were Bitcoin, that we were flawed, you know, blah, kind of the same narrative.

And, uh, they struck a chord with me one day, so I, I did this show on a guy named Hiroo Onoda.

It's the story of Hiroo Onoda.

Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese soldier in World War II.

And, um, I'll, I won't tell you the whole episode, obviously, but the, at the end of the story, he and four other guys were, um, were part of a team on an island in the Philippines, and they refused to believe that the war was over.

And-

Well, we pray, of course, because it is possible not to see reality.

As some of us will know the story of Hiro Onoda.

Hiro was a Japanese soldier in the Second World War.

In 1944, he was sent to Lubang Island in the Philippines with this instruction, never surrender.

And so he didn't until 1974.

Every day, all the time, the newsfeed.

It is so hard to see clearly and pick out the wood from the trees.

It is very possible to go through life like Hiro Onoda, uh, like a confused, uh, faithful trapped in the jungle, not really knowing what's going on.

It's a wonderful way of looking at this, and it's a wonderful story.

There was a Japanese soldier by the name of Hiro Onoda and around towards the end of the World War II, the Japanese government, he was a soldier for Japan, the Japanese government sent him to an island in the Philippines with very strict orders to disrupt the enemy and to not surrender under any circumstances.

So he's in the Philippines, he's fighting this war, he's leading a, I don't know if it's a battalion or a platoon, and he gets, communication gets cut off from Japan.

I want you to keep that point in mind, communication gets cut off, okay, important piece to this.

They're trying to drop leaflets.

They even get family members to go out into the jungle and call out their names.

And so Hiro Onoda was not the only one.

But his family did go out there.

Mm-hmm

... because this is, like, uh, you know, like somewhere there's an island where, uh, a Japanese pilot who went down in the war still thinks the Great War is, is going on.

Yeah, Hiroo Onoda, or-

Yeah

... whatever his name is.