Hiroo Onoda

Hiroo Onoda is represented in the linked non-fiction through court politics and dynastic power, military command and battlefield decision-making, and political ambition and government. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.

In non-fiction, Hiroo Onoda is discussed in John Man’s Ninja. In John Man’s Ninja, Man follows that reinvention into the modern age and closes with Hiroo Onoda, whose decades-long survival in the Philippines became a very different expression of secrecy, endurance and absolute commitment.