If they do , the guys will always lose . Hiroo Onoda would n't accept Japan 's World War II defeat until 1974 . He stayed in the jungle on the same island where he had been deployed . His former commanding officer had to travel to the island to persuade him to give up . Onoda died of pneumonia in a Tokyo hospital later , a newspaper reported .
Hiroo Onoda would n't accept Japan 's World War II defeat until 1974 . He stayed in the jungle on the same island where he had been deployed . His former commanding officer had to travel to the island to persuade him to give up . Onoda died of pneumonia in a Tokyo hospital later , a newspaper reported .