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HIROO ONODA

Brighton & Hove Albion's Kaoru Mitoma in action against Tottenham Hotspur in London on May 25
SOCCER
Dec 2, 2025
Chinese fans lambast Brighton over Mitoma soldier post
The post showed Kaoru Mitoma posing with a young player and a mocked-up soccer card featuring Imperial Japanese Army officer Hiroo Onoda.
1924
51³Ô¹ÏÍø / History / Japan Times Gone By
Mar 1, 2024
Japan Times 1924: Japan nice but men dress in queer ways
A piece by women visiting Tokyo gives us a century-old take on what tourists in the 1920s thought of ¡°weird Japan.¡±
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jun 12, 2022
Director Werner Herzog finally finds his medium
The filmmaker behind ¡°Grizzly Man¡± and ¡°Fitzcarraldo¡± makes a late-career foray into fiction with ¡°The Twilight World,¡± a new book about a real-life Japanese intelligence officer.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 7, 2021
French director Arthur Harari delves into the paranoid mind in ¡®Onoda¡¯
French director Arthur Harari¡¯s biopic delves deep into the inner life of the Japanese soldier who refused to surrender for decades after the war.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 7, 2021
¡®Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle¡¯: An engrossing biopic on a wartime holdout
Arthur Harari¡¯s war film about Hiroo Onoda, who resisted surrender for decades after the end of World War II, focuses on key moments from the soldier¡¯s time in the Philippines.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Jan 16, 2007
Hiroo Onoda
Hiroo Onoda, 84, is a former member of an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence unit, an elite commando during World War II who was sent to Lubang Island in the Philippines in 1944 to conduct guerrilla warfare and gather military intelligence. Trained in clandestine operations, his mission was to sneak...
Japan weighs regulating Pokemon cards amid trading mania
A Pokemon event is held in Jakarta on July 11
Japan to set up expert working group on accepting foreign nationals
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara (second from left) addresses a meeting of ministers responsible for policies concerning foreign residents, held at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.
Head of Swiss euthanasia firm dies after collapsing while ascending Mount Fuji
Around 200,000 people typically scale the 3,776 meter Mount Fuji each year.
Indian brothers make manga debut in Japan
Two Indian brothers made their manga debut in Japan with "Kung Fu Kung Fool" ¡ª an action-comedy series that follows the adventures of a notorious thief and a young boy.
Japan scientists identify clusters of protein believed to trigger Alzheimer¡¯s disease
A team of researchers said they found a ¡°seed¡± that accelerates the amyloid beta accumulation process in the brain, naming it ¡°Peak 1 amyloid beta,¡± as seen in a mouse's brain.
Japan to set up expert working group on accepting foreign nationals
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara (second from left) addresses a meeting of ministers responsible for policies concerning foreign residents, held at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.
Inside Toho Archive¡¯s mission to save Japan¡¯s cinematic memory
The goal of restoration is not to artificially upscale but to return the film to the condition it was in ¡°the very first day it appeared in the world,¡± says Nobushige Toshima, president and sales division manager of Toho Archive.
The sci-fi sensibilities of electronic trio Black Boboi
Black Boboi was formed in 2018 when solo artists Julia Shortreed, Utena Kobayashi and Ermhoi came together under Kobayashi¡¯s newly founded label, Bindividual.
A perfect storm: Kaze Fujii fans flock to Fuji Rock
Okayama-born singer-songwriter Kaze Fujii has carved out a distinctive place in Japanese pop since his major-label debut in 2019.
Can Japanese comedy get laughs in English? Yoshimoto Kogyo lets the jokes rip
Wes-P has millions of followers and his viral clips made him recognizable out of Japan.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

Longform

For many people, utility poles and power lines have become such a familiar part of Japan¡¯s landscape that they often go unnoticed.
Why Japan¡¯s utility poles won¡¯t be disappearing anytime soon
By Alex K.T. Martin

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