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All this pictures where taken in the subsecuent days after Hiroo Onoda was relieved from duty on March 1974. Onoda presents himself in his carefully patched original Japanese uniform and handles his sword, his functioning Arisaka Type 99 rifle, 500 rounds of ammunition and several hand grenades, as well as the dagger his mother had given him in 1944 to kill himself with if he was captured. (As you can see, he could have continue fighting for another 30 years if he wanted). The thing that breaks my heart is seeing Mister Onoda in his proud and still defiant stance and comparing it with the imposture of the majority of people that appear with him in the pictures. The shocking encounter of the old values and the modern world, all that was lost after the end of 1945 incarnate in this fragile looking japanese old man who proudly still resist and believes in the old ways and traditions even if he is the only one left and encounters himself, alone, in a decadent and strange world that see him as a curiosity, an excentric. That’s what I most admire about Hiroo Onoda, his passion expressed in his calm and quiet perseverance and loyalty.
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Have you ever checkout the artwork of Jakub Rozalski? I think that'd be something you enjoy plus his paintings just look awesome
Ah, so that’s what the artist is called!













Thanks anon!
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Lowering nuclear fuel into the completed reactor, Chernobyl
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The only emotional spectrum I can relate to
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Salmon Creek Farm in Albion, California.
Photo by James Voorhies.
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