Hiroo Onoda became legendary as the Japanese soldier who refused to surrender after World War II. Stationed in the ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with filmmaker Werner Herzog about his debut novel, The Twilight World. It tells the story of Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese soldier who kept fighting decades after the end of WWII.

With only 1,300 men, Sparrow Force was all that stood between the island of Timor and a massive Japanese invasion. Armed with ...

The USS Lexington Museum in Texas handed over a Japanese soldier's Good Luck Flag, carried during World War II, to a nonprofit organization for its return to the man's family.

Human remains discovered on Okinawa in 2004 have been identified as those of a Japanese soldier, marking the first time DNA alone was used to confirm the identity of a casualty from the Battle of ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with filmmaker Werner Herzog about his debut novel, The Twilight World. It tells the story of Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese soldier who kept fighting decades after the end of WWII.