Early Life
Onoda was born on March 19, 1922, in Kamekawa Village, KaisÅ District, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. When he was 17 years old, he went to work for the Tajima Yoko trading company in Wuhan, China. When he was 20, he was enlisted in the Imperial Japanese Army.
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