World War II ended in 1945 – except for one man. Japanese Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda spent nearly thirty years hiding in the jungles of the Philippines, convinced the war had not yet ended. Onoda’s story is not merely a tale of extraordinary endurance. It is also a cautionary lesson about how dangerous blind obedience and…
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In the Philippines, tourists can look at the same place and see two entirely different realities. One might see a romantic rural paradise where children play joyfully and the sunset glows like an Instagram filter. Another might see an ordinary, yet poor village with nothing interesting or attractive. Since the top three tourist destinations in…