As we're coming up on the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack, here's something that most people here probably didn't know about...

There were these Japanese soldier holdouts who refused to surrender after WW2 ended and continued fighting, some for a very long time.
Check out this article about these crazy holdouts who refused to surrender:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_holdout

Some of them didn’t believe that the war was over, so they continued fighting for 10, 20 years and even longer, in remote parts of Pacific islands. They ended up fighting local police long after the U.S. military left.

And then there was this guy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda

You think that’s normal behavior for a soldier?
I mean there was a lot of indoctrination in the Japanese army, but how in the world could a soldier think that the war is still going on after over 30 years? Has any war in modern history lasted that long? What was he thinking?

In fact, that guy Lt. Onoda didn’t even surrender in the end, technically. It took his former commander in the army, who was still alive, to fly all the way to the Phillipines and personally relieve him of duty.
When he returned to Japan almost 30 years after WW2 ended, he said he was dismayed by how Japan had changed. He had lived in a time capsule all of those years--he missed the 1950s, the turbulent 1960s, the Vietnam War, and when he got back to Japan, women had ditched their kimonos for short mini skirts.

I mean it seems like some of the Japanese soldiers were just nuts--just plain insane.
How about their allies (Germany)--were there any Nazi soldiers that held out for 30 years like these japanese nut cases?

I'm 1/4 Japanese and sometimes when I read about these things, I feel like hanging my head down in shame...

Got to respect the crazy bastards determination and resolve.

Dont give Hollywood some ideas.

Reminds me of someone.....

i find it admirable. And i find it less admirable that you talk so about your ancestors. But thats just my opinion.

I think the japanese and the british are the only one who still honor and think about their fallen soldiers..

I find it much more bad that no1 ever remembers their fallen heros or even talk them bad.
Ofc Nazi Germany did crimes. But really betraying you own fallen soldiers??
Also does the USA still celebrater their world war 2 fallen heros??

every day in belgium there is a band still making music for the english soldiers. japanese are still thanking fallen soldiers.

US minus the hardcore liberals are very patriotic. We have a federal holiday for memorial day and veterens day. And Pearl Harbor and DDay as honored. I am an Army Officer and most people are gracious to me and get drinks bout for me now and then

I didn´t know, thats great.

Hiroo Onoda, he has my respects.

Is this Reddit TIL now?

USA is also pretty hardcore about that stuff