Hi there. Newbie from the Philippines searching for more Japanese plunder.

Hi everyone.

I'm new here.  Saw this site while searching for a 2-box metal detector.  I'm out to prove the existence of Japanese plunder buried in the Philippines.  So I will be posting about my experiences and sometimes seek technical help from the members of this forum.

I'm not looking for financiers/investors in my projects since I do believe only Japanese financiers are allowed to partner with locals to open the sites where the plunder is hidden.

I have attached a most unusual picture of a well, pointed out by a Japanese tunnel engineer.  It has 7 sides and the meaning of the number of sides is left up to the person looking at the well.  All the engineers I have talked to say it is quite difficult to build a well with that many sides.  I'll leave it up to the reader.

Have a nice day.

Dred

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  from NT Australia , goodluck fishing/searching . cheers Mick

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Yes it is a well alright.  It's concrete and a truly unusual piece if I may add.  The Japanese used these as landmarks since people will always remember where a well would be situated.  Much like an old school, a church, a hospital.

Finding treasure beyond our wildest dreams is what drives this hobby I guess. And sometimes it drives people mad and poor.  Hehehe.

All I'm saying is that of all the 'thousands' of stories out there about Jap plunder tucked away somewhere here in the Philippines, there's got to be a few that are real. The Seagraves in their book "Gold Warriors" make for quite a good argument for it. 

Anyways, I've been doing lots of research about what the Japanese said, the landmarks and why he used them.  He was assigned to Central Luzon, the Philippines, after a stint in Europe as a consultant to the Germans in building their fortifications.   

In 1941, Clark Field was an American base that became the home of their bombers from Hawaii, in preparation for an imminent attack by the Japanese.  In fact, Clark Field was bombed almost on the same day as Pearl Harbor.  The landmarks the Japanese used as reference to bury their plunder are still there.  I have attached two pictures of these landmarks taken before or after the war and pictures of how they look now.  When the Japanese tunnel engineer came back in 2001 he looked for these landmarks. 



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That may be true but history tells us that not one single piece of plunder was ever reported to have been found in Japan unlike Nazi Germany.  And I don't believe the Japs conquerred Southeast Asia just to get rid of the white devil.  A conquering army would help themselves to the most valuable things of that conquerred land.  If not in Japan, then where? The logical place would be to trace them back to conquered lands. 

Manila would have be the transshipment point but with the shipping lanes were already teeming with US subs on the prowl for Jap ships, it became too dangerous to transport it by ship.  The bright thing to do would be to bury it in a place where only you know where it was buried and come back for it when times are a little bit less hostile.  I know I would do it that way. 

They transported it on the Manila-Dagupan (North of Luzon) railway.  This railway snaked through the plains of Central Luzon.  It had stations in Angeles City, Clark and almost all towns of Central Luzon.  The Japanese said they distributed the plunder in strategic areas along the way.  Clark was home to a POW camp they had enough 'slave labor'.  In fact, the Japanese said he or his team built a tunnel system in the adjacent areas of Clark.  And the landmarks were his reference points.

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Hi hardluck,

Interesting statements.  And I suppose there could have been several found but never officially reported since as you said the question of ownership will always be brought up.

I never ascribe to the misnomer of calling the plunder as Yamashita treasure.  Though it's possible that he was part of the clique that hid them but the perpetrators may have used his name to hide the culpability of the real people who ordered the looting and the hiding (not to mention the killing, the burning and the raping of countless civilians and POWs): the Japanese royal family.  Yamashita I guess was the convenient whipping boy.

And even the Japanese I talked to are angry at their government who duped their soldiers into believing that they were dying for the Emperor when in reality so many of these fine soldiers died protecting the Emperor's plundered treasures.  Theirs is the story worth telling. 

At any rate thanks for the replies.  I shall be posting several photos of my 'adventure' very soon.  God bless us all!






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