Men who refused to believe in the formal surrender of Japan continued to stay where?
Battle of Luzon:  The Allies had taken control of all strategically and economically important locations of Luzon by March 1945, although pockets of Japanese resistance held out in the mountains until the unconditional surrender of Japan. Japanese holdout: Japanese holdouts (残留日本兵 , Zanryū nipponhei , "remaining Japanese soldiers") or stragglers were Japanese soldiers in the Pacific Theatre who, after the August 1945 surrender of Japan ending World War II, either adamantly doubted the veracity of the formal surrender due to dogmatic militaristic principles, or simply were not aware of it because communications had been cut off by Allied advances.
in the mountains