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    The Yamashita's Treasure refers to gold and other valuables looted by Japanese forces from across Asia during World War 2 and buried in tunnels and underground complexes in the Philippines. As the war turned against Japan, shipping routes became too dangerous, so the treasure was buried with the plan to recover it after the war. It is estimated the buried treasure was worth over $100 billion today, including thousands of tons of gold bullion. The treasure was named after General Tomoyuki Yamashita, who oversaw the looting and burial in the Philippines, but it actually belonged to Emperor Hirohito of Japan. Much of the treasure remains buried despite attempts to recover it.

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    The Yamashita's Treasure refers to gold and other valuables looted by Japanese forces from across Asia during World War 2 and buried in tunnels and underground complexes in the Philippines. As the war turned against Japan, shipping routes became too dangerous, so the treasure was buried with the plan to recover it after the war. It is estimated the buried treasure was worth over $100 billion today, including thousands of tons of gold bullion. The treasure was named after General Tomoyuki Yamashita, who oversaw the looting and burial in the Philippines, but it actually belonged to Emperor Hirohito of Japan. Much of the treasure remains buried despite attempts to recover it.

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    YAMASHITA’S TREASURE IN THE PHILIPPINES

    I. OBJECTIVES
    1. To know the story behind the Yamashita’s Treasure;
    2. To identify how Yamashita’s Treasure came to the Philippines;
    3. To reason out why Yamashita’s Treasure came to the Philippines.

    II. INTRODUCTION

    The Yamashita Treasure (also known as the Yamashita’s Gold and Fort
    Santiago Treasure) is the given name to an alleged stolen valuables were
    looted from banks, depositories,
    temples, churches, other commercial premises,
    mosques, museums, and private homes. Then, all were buried and hidden in
    caves tunnels and underground complexes somewhere in the Philippines
    The said treasure was named after the Imperial Japanese Army General
    Tomoyuki Yamashita, who was the commander of Japanese forces in the
    Philippines in 1944

    III. AUTHOR’S BACKGROUND

    Sterling Seagrave an American historian (b. 1937), author of The Soong


    Dynasty, The Marcos Dynasty, Gold Warriors and numerous other books
    which address unofficial and clandestine aspects of 20th Century political
    history of the countries in the Far East.
    Born in Columbus, Ohio on April 15, 1937, Seagrave grew up on
    the China-Burma border, the fifth generation of an American family living in
    the Orient for nearly two centuries (his father was Dr. Gordon Seagrave,
    author of Burma Surgeon
    Seagrave contributed to many major newspapers and magazines. His
    books include The Yamato Dynasty: The Secret History of Japan's Imperial
    Family, Opération Lys d'or (Operation Golden Lily in English), Yellow Rain:
    A Journey Through the Terror of Chemical Warfare, and Dragon Lady.

    IV. BOOK CLASSIFICATION

    History

    V. SETTING & ERA THROUGH MAP

    World War II in Japan and in the Philippines


    VI. DISCUSSION

     During the earlier part of the war, WWII looted treasures were being shipped back
    to Japan for badly needed war finances.

     However, when American patrolling naval vessels made the shipping of these
    looted treasures to Japan much too risky to continue with due to almost certain
    loss, another plan was devised.

     Investigative reports show that a great bulk of World War II treasures reached the
    Philippines from the latter part of 1943 through October, 1944, at that period
    when Field Marshall Count Terauchi was in-charge of the Japanese Imperial
    Forces in the Southeast area of the Pacific.

     Japan had always considered the Philippine Islands to be a very important


    strategic location for military bases in Southeast Asia.

     Once the shipping lanes became too dangerous due to American Naval vessels,
    almost all of the loot that the Japanese had accumulated thereafterwards was
    being channeled to the Philippines and buried. 

     Their ultimate plan was, that when the war was over they were going to withdraw
    forces from all the other Asian countries but try to maintain their colonial rule
    over the Philippine islands. 

     This would also allow them to put military bases there as a pretext of 'protection
    for the Philippine people'. In this way, they could remain in the Philippines for as
    long as they liked and take their time to re-excavate the stolen WWII loot at their
    leisure.

     Most, if not all of these tunnels, were booby-trapped and rigged with 1,000 and
    2,000 pound WWII bombs and poisonous gas. This trick would also help keep the
    buried loot from falling into enemy hands.

     In most cases, POW labor was used to dig the intricate tunneling systems. In all
    cases, upon completion of securing the gold in the pits - the POW's were all
    executed and buried along with the treasures. 

     In some rare cases, Japanese officers even had their own soldiers killed and buried
    along with the treasure to protect their secret locations.

     In all there were 172 'documented' Philippine burial sites (138 land and 34 water
    sites) left by the Japanese Imperial Forces. This is not to even mention the
    numerous 'private' burials of WWII loot by greedy officers and renegade soldiers. 
     There was still much treasure remaining to be buried when the U.S. abruptly
    invaded the islands. Japanese Forces took all of this with them up into the
    mountains in the northern Philippines and other areas during their retreat, where it
    was all buried at many different locations.

     It is estimated that the total worth of this war loot ranged up to 3 billion 1940's
    dollars - the equivalent of over $100 billion today.

     According to various post war estimates, the amount of gold bullion alone was
    4,000 to 6,000 tons. Ex-president Ferdinand Marcos himself managed to recover
    several sites and that is how he became so wealthy.

     Why they call it Yamashita’s gold is anyone’s guess. In reality, it was the treasure
    of Hirohito. Yamashita merely worked for Hirohito.
    The royal family was put in charge of supervising the whole process, and as much
    booty as possible was taken to Japan.

    VII. INSIGHTS GAINED

    Upon knowing the history behind the Yamashita’s Treasure it give me the
    idea of one of the most undeniable attitude of a human being it is being
    greediness and selfishness. We cannot deny the fact that most of the people
    now a day are very competitive in many aspects, that they will do anything
    they like just to get their desire or wants in life. Even at home selfishness and
    greediness are existing which is for me is not good attitude to possess with.
    Greedy in a sense that you will even rob which is not your property just to
    meet your own desire in life.
    As an educator we must inculcate to the minds of our students the good
    characteristics as a human being to mold them into a better person to attain a
    sustainable development in our country and even to whole world.

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