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Yamashita's gold, also referred to as the Yamashita treasure, is the name given to the alleged war loot stolen in Southeast Asia by Imperial Japanese forces during World War II and supposedly hidden in caves, tunnels, or underground complexes in different cities in the Philippines.
May 12, 2016 · You have surely heard the tales of Aztec gold and Incan treasure, but how about the Yamashita gold? General Yamashita of the Imperial Army of Japan is purported to have buried or hidden away tons of gold in the Philippines.
Perhaps the oldest myth is that of the “lost treasure” of Limahong, a 16th-century Chinese pirate who is said to have buried his loot somewhere in Pangasinan. Stories of lost treasure...
May 9, 2018 · That night in early June 1945, with Japan’s war against the Americans about to be lost, General Yamashita hurriedly oversaw the last burials of gold and treasure. Prince Takeda, of the Japanese Royal family, had helped devise and build the tunnels to hide the treasure.
Jul 2, 2021 · It’s about a stash of gold bars and a 1-ton golden Buddha statue that are believed to be part of the so-called Yamashita treasure — a hoard of stolen gold bullion hidden by Japanese troops during World War II.
Apr 29, 2019 · It was believed to be part a long-rumored stash of plunder that Japanese general Tomoyuki Yamashita had buried in the Philippines in the waning days of World War II. Marcos’ agents had stolen it...
Aug 19, 2022 · Legend has it that General Tomoyuki Yamashita and his forces buried tonnes of gold and other stolen treasures in underground caves and tunnels in the country's north, with the intention of retrieving it all after the war. But Japan eventually surrendered, and Yamashita was captured by US forces and convicted of war crimes.
Jun 16, 2022 · Unsolved mysteries of South-east Asia: General Yamashita's lost gold. In the second of a five-part monthly series, The Straits Times follows the trail of a fabled loot that a Japanese general...
When General Tomoyuki Yamashita met his fate at the end of the hangman’s rope on the 23rd of February 1946, did he take an incredible secret with him to his grave? Had the general really hidden a fabulous treasure somewhere in the mountains? What was the truth behind the legend of Yamashita’s gold? They called Yamashita the ‘Tiger of ...
The Lost Gold of World War II returns to resume the search for hundreds of billions of dollars of stolen loot supposedly hidden in Southeast Asia by Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita.
