Back in 1974, a Japanese college dropout called Nourio Suzuki heard a rumor.

Apparently, on a lone island in the Philippines, far out in the dense jungle, was a Japanese soldier,

a lieutenant, no less, who'd been there since the end of World War II.

That's almost 29 years at this point, refusing to surrender.

Initially, Noirio brushed this off as a hoax.

If he'd been missing for that long, he must have been declared dead.

Plus, there was no way someone could survive out in the jungle for that long.

However, he did some research.

The lieutenant, by the name Hiro Onada, had been missing since the war ended in 1945 and declared

dead in 1959.

That was odd.

It was a suspiciously long time to wait to declare someone dead, so he must have been seen alive at some point.

And if he'd survived that long, what was to say he wasn't still there?

Inspired by this wild legend, he decided to take matters into his own hands and embarked on a

daring adventure to find the lost soldier and bring him home.

But it wouldn't be that easy, not by a long shot.

So get ready because we're about to take one heck of a deep dive into the story of a man

who fought for nearly 29 years after World War II it ended.

You're listening. You're listening. You're listening.

You're be amazed.

To begin, we need to meet the mysterious man, Hero Onada.

Hero was born in 1922 in the town of Kynan in Japan's Wakayama Prefecture.

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