In the homeland, the phrase 100 million soul s dying for honor was on everybody's lips. Soldiers were supposed to give their lives for the cause, not grovel in enemy prison camps. Hero onoda had family members flown in at high expense to the japanese government because heronota was still killing people in the philippines after the war. The search party left behind newspapers and magazines. Most of them were recent, and a lot of them contained articles about crown prince's marriage. He says i sincerely believed that japan would not surrender so long as any one japanese remained alive.