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| General Tomoyuki Yamashita |
The stolen property reportedly included many different kinds of valuables looted from banks, depositories, temples, churches, other commercial premises, mosque, museums and private homes. It takes its name from General Tomoyuki Yamashita, who assumed command of Japanese forces in the Philippines in 1944.
According to various accounts, the loot was initially concentrated in Singapore, and later transported to the Philippines. The Japanese hoped to ship the treasure from the Philippines to the Japanese Home Islands after the war ended. As the War in the Pacific progressed, U.S. Navy submarines and Allied warplanes inflicted increasingly heavy sinkings of Japanese Merchant shipping. Some of the ships carrying the war booty back to Japan were sunk in combat.
The Seagraves and the few others have claimed that American Military Intelligence Operatives located much of the loot; they colluded with Hirohito and other senior Japanese figures to conceal its existence, and; they used it to finance American covert intelligence operations around the world during the Cold War. These rumors have inspired many hopefuls treasure hunters, but most experts and Filipino historians say there is no credible evidence behind these claims.
Many individuals and cosortia, both Philippine and foreign, continue to search sites. A number of accidental deaths, injuries and financial losses incurred by treasure hunters have been reported.
At present, the Mines and Geo Sciences Bureau of the Department of Natural Resources of the Philippines is the Philippine government agency that grants treasure permits.
University of the Philippines professor Rico Jose has questioned the theory that treasure from mainland South East Asia was transported to the Philippines: By 1943 the Japanese were no longer in control of the seas. "It does not make sense to bring in something that valuable here when you know it is going to be lost to the Americans anyway. The more rational thing would have been send it to Taiwan or China".
Philippines National Historical Institute chairman and historian Ambeth Ocampo commented: "Two of the wealth myths I usually encounter are the Yamashita treasure and gossip that the Cojuangco fortune was founded on a bag of money..." Ocampo also said: "For the past 50 years many people, both Filipinos and foreigners, have spent their time, money and energy in search of Yamashita's elusive treasure."
Yamashita' s Gold in Popular Culture:
* Yamashita's gold, though not mentioned by that name, serves as a major plot element of Cryptonomicon, a novel by Neal Stephenson.
* A film about the alleged treasure, Yamashita: The Tiger's Treasure, directed by Chito S. Ronio was released in the Philippines in 2001.
* An episode of the American TV series Unsolved Mysteries, first broadcast on American TV on January 27, 1993, discussed the fate of the loot that has supposedly been amassed by Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita
* The latter part of the console game Medal of Honor: Rising Sun is about the gold.
* Yamashita's gold serves as a plot element of Dragon, a novel by Clive Cussler.
* The Malaysian movie, Scenario: Pemburu Emas Yamashita tells about Yamashita's hidden gold in a cave in the Malaysian jungle.
* Ore or Or, a play by Duncan Pflaster uses Yamashita's gold as a metaphor for the love, lives of the modern-day characters, one of whom is trying to determine if a crate of of Golden Statues uncovered in the Philippines was part of Yamashita's hoard or not.
* Yamashita's Gold was featured in an episode of a Philippine Television Show I-Witness entitled,"Ginto"(gold).
* The Mystery of Yamashita's Map, (2007 Hardcover)(2009 Paperback), a novel written by James McKenzie tells the story of a group of treasure hunters who go in search of Yamashita's gold.
* A TV show, " Yamashita's Treasure" was aired by Singapore's Media, Mediacorp in 2010....more
The book called "The Mystery of Yamashita's Map" is a best seller in Japan and even features in George Takei's (Star Trek, Heroes) website. It also sold well across the world, proof that the legend is popular everywhere...Hollywood are you listening..?
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The looted treasures of Japanese from Asian countries during the World war 2 buried in Philippine soil is not a myth, it's a reality.
ReplyDeleteThe theory that because the Americans are coming back to the Philippines, the Japanese were in a hurry so they buried treasures anywhere is also a false presumption. Many events in the past has been covered-up to protect the honor and the real motives of people behind world war II. GREED of POWER and AUTHORITY was the true reason. The WW2 was a well planned, well organized event in the world history where million of lives perished. Prior to the war, Japanese secret operatives were already in the country studying possibilities and drafting plans where they could possibly hide treasures.In my more than 6 years in treasure hunting, I was able to study and compare layers on ground and the possible work of the Japanese and the great God of Heaven opened my mind to understand the things of the past and its effect on the future.
FINDINGS;
metal detectors and scanners being marketed and posted in the internet are all for business of foolishness. the Japanese mixed materials and chemicals and spread it on the underground, layer after layer to hide items and deceived the hunters. different chemical combinations were made in the left and right channel, the channels connecting the left and right vault, the collapsible and the right channel, the mixture of top, side and floor of the vault, the secret joints of the what they called unbreakable cement. there are so many secret methods to what the made in the underground kept for more than 70 years, but the Lord intervenes in every foolish work of man. He reveals it in a proper time. after a hard years of research, the understanding came to me about the secrets. The Lord will cause the STONE TO SPEAK. written in the stones and cement structures are instructions of everything about the work of the Japanese in the undergound. the general plan, the detailed items contend per vault or box, the location of the bomb and poison, the chemical mixture for fake and true items identification, the order of layers. the different jar mixture they manufactured. this discovery I made, will prove that EVERYTHING IS WELL PLANNED AND INTENTIONALLY KEEP LOOTED TREASURES IN THE PHILIPPINE SOIL. ALL burial sites of treasure per inventory contains detailed instructions.
ADVICE;
If you want to do treasure hunting, please, study it well and ask the guidance of the Holy Spirit. BUT first of all... ask yourself, what is your intention and superior motive of doing this? just to satisfy yourself for pleasure to become rich? IF YOU BECOME SUCCESSFUL IN RECOVERY, THIS WILL BRING YOU TO A DESPERATE AND MORE TROUBLED LIFE. God rewarded King Cyrus of Persia, the looted treasures kept by the Babylonians in many secret places just for good intentions (Isaiah 45).
also don't ever go to the mediums or card readers or fortune tellers for they have no knowledge about buried treasures . you will be deceived. the Japanese did it in a scientific way,for evil intention with a curse because of killings, so the best way to recover it is to study scientifically with the guidance of the Holy Spirit,..FOR GOOD INTENTION SAKE