Reason Why Yamashita Gold Is True

Any visitor to the Philippines who ask will easily know that the nation is filled of rumors of buried World War II loot, commonly known as Yamashita gold or just “Tiger Gold.” Indeed, the “Tiger of Malaysia,” was Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, commander of Japan’s war effort in the Phippines, almost nothing to do with gold. It is primarily known as Yamashita’s gold because of its military capability that allowed much of its spoilage on the continent.

Recent success stories of attempts by the late President Ferdinand Marcos to recover some golds that are unfounded and have definitely revived the gold rush in the country. Many recent discoveries have been clearly documented:

In the state of Hawaii, $22,001,405,000.00 plus interest (for $ 43,518,812,967.69 plus $11,101,044.65 each day at the time of trial) was awarded to the estate of treasure hunter Rogelio Roxas in 1996 over Yamashita Gold. The defeated defendant was Marcos Estate. The case won by the firm’s Los Angeles Magaa, Cathcart and McCarthy, was the largest single judgement in the history of civil law. Based on the 1974 price of $160 per ounce troy, the $22 billion amounts to 4277 metric tons of gold. The centerpiece of the case was a Burmese style Buddha of solid gold except for a small compartment containing jewels accessed by unscrewing the head, less than 3 feet tall and weighs about one ton (2,200 pounds). The late Robert Curtis was a witness in the case that his investigation revealed that there were 18 Buddhas looted from temples in Southeast Asia, distributed a total of 172 major burial sites in the Philippines.

In 1997, a research team of respected Asahi Japanese TV filmed and verified core samples of 1,800 gold bars. Although it was a minor finding of less than 12 tons, it was valued at $150 million.

Therefore, the story of gold is not a myth. This is how it all started:

As early as 1920, Emperor Hirohito realized that a new world war was coming. He foresaw that to defeat the U.S. military would require extraordinary support of the unprecedented funding. He organized a special team to confiscate the wealth of Asia. The project, entrusted only to the leadership of the royal family (in particular, His Imperial Highness Prince Chichibu [no miya] Yasuhito Shinno, Hirohito’s younger brother) was the codename of Kin Not Yuri, translated Golden Lily.

In the decade before the war, Japan introduced hundreds of spies in the twelve countries in Asia in time to conquer. Apparently, as civilians from all walks of life, their mission was to locate and map the deposits of wealth in all regions. Objectives, including museums, treasuries, banks, churches, temples, monasteries, shrines, mining operations and large corporations and wealthy families and organized-crime syndicates. Detailed reports were sent back to the royalty in Tokyo, who wanted to have one basic thing: a list of who had the keys and combinations to the vaults that will soon become candidates to be interrogated and tortured.

Their first major project, the December 1937 rape of Nanking was only the tip of the iceberg. An estimated 6,000 tons of gold were looted from Chiang KaiKai- treasuries within a few days. As the Japanese Imperial Army swept through China and absorbed almost all of Southeast Asia, which took well over 4000 years worth of stored gold, silver, precious stones, coins and artwork, including temple status.

With the fear of Hitler, so the vast wealth of Europe had also been placed in secret unsuspectingly into the path of Japan. This includes national treasures of the Netherlands in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), the French in Indochina (now Vietnam) and Britain (with the notable exception of the crown jewels) in Singapore. Through a series of seeming miracles, everything came to Japan, and the agents of Golden Lily quietly and efficiently swept the booty, more refined precious metals, and began to move back to their homeland.

Much of this vast treasure never reached Japan. With the Allied victory at Midway, Hirohito was reluctant to risk its transport across the heavily patrolled by enemy submarines. Instead, it was diverted to the Philippines, especially aboard the captured Dutch Passenger Liner Op ten Noort, among others, disguised as hospital ships. So cautious where the Japanese communications were detailed to the allied forces of the exact times of these treasures- laden ships long before their movements. Even before Midway, gold was brought to the Philippines to be cast and stored in natural caves and caverns, as well as an extensive system of tunnels that had been left by Spanish miners of yesteryear.

Headquarters now transferred from Singapore to Manila. The Golden Lily team came under the guidance of His Imperial Highness Prince Takeda [no miya] Tsuneyoshi, a cousin of Hirohito, who oversaw most of the royal burial sites in the Philippines and still second in command to Chichibu. This is the same Takeda, who later became an Olympic equestrian competitor and even president of the Japanese Olympic Committee, his son currently holding this position. The emperor wisely foresaw an eventual defeat of Japan. It firmly believed that Japan would be able to keep the Philippines as a concession for peace, then use the vast wealth hidden there to rebuild their empire after the war.

Therefore, the relocation of enormous shipments of war treasure to the Philippines was seen urgently as the only hope for Japan’s ethnic survival. At the end of the war as Allied victories were forcing sudden evacuations in the north, many of the complex burial sites were emptied and apparently relocated to the southern Philippines. The three main ports on the island of Mindanao, in particular, (Zamboanga, General Santos City and Davao) were suddenly invaded by the Japanese ships who frantically unload their cargoes in the mountains. The Yamashita Gold is probably true, post your comments below.