Tomoyuki Yamashita person

“Yamashita unbuckled his sword, bowed deeply, presented it to the major who was there. Five months later on February 23rd, 1946, after what many described as a grotesque miscarriage of justice, Yamashita was hung, hanged. So there's no menti…”

“took him along to be sure nothing bad happened to Ben in his absence. In the first four days of June, Yamashita anti-tank units near the Mini Monkey site fought a running battle with the U.S. Tank Battalion and basically ended up having to …”

“in the Philippines and elsewhere that they would never be compensated by Japan. That's our government. September 2nd, 1945, after receiving official notice of Japan's surrender, General Yamashito and his staff emerged from their mountainous…”

“what's going on. So it starts, the prologue starts in the closing months of World War II in the Philippines. There is a Japanese general, Yamashita, who basically was fighting in the mountains of Luzon, and they were basically losing, but h…”

“of Tunnel 9. He and his staff spent a lot of time below ground in the weeks before they withdrew. And in the meantime, another big cavern was prepared as a hard base for Yamashita and his staff to use during the fight to the death that lay …”

“the prime minister there called Tojo, who recalled him and salted him away in Manchuria for the bulk of the war. But by mid-1944, Tojo had been forced out of office and General Yamashita was moved from Manchuria to Luzon in the Philippines …”

“All hopes are on Yamashita at this point. And he becomes involved in Golden Lily only during the final 10 months of the war. So most of the hiding and the sealing of these 175 sites have already been done. So it just so happens that Yamashi…”

“who took them to a prison outside of Manila. Because of the gruesome atrocities committed earlier by Admiral Ikebaki Kanji, sailors and Marines in the city of Manila, after Yamashito had ordered them to leave the city unharmed, the general …”

“had told Roxas that as a young boy, he had been an interpreter for General Yamashita. He said Yamashita had taken a large quantity of gold and silver bars from Manila to another city to pay and feed his troops during the last year of the wa…”

“Huge fight, probably more so than what you would have normally imagined, given the odds that he was going to lose anyway, because they had already basically taken everything except for mainland Japan. So what most people didn't realize is h…”

“control over the Philippines. Well, that didn't happen. Obviously, American subs started playing havoc on the trade routes going from the Philippines to Japan. So instead of shipping all the goods back to Japan, they started taking prisoner…”

“So it provided the perfect fortress for a defensive purpose for General Yamashita. So May 1945, the American forces were advancing into the mountains so quickly that Yamashita also had to abandon that place. And he pulled his forces back be…”

“Yamashito's gold and the burying of it in Philippines was ever held accountable either. And they knew who did it because they rounded up the people in the Philippines, tortured them, beat them, imprisoned them until they were able to find s…”

“of interrogating all of the Japanese prisoners. Many Filipinos had been cruelly tortured and beheaded. Women and girls were gang raped in the streets. Many of them disemboweled and hacked to pieces. But Santi and his assistants were careful…”

“Okay, so in the summer of 1944, it was evident that the Allied invasion of the Philippines was imminent and like to recapture it. So General Siganong Corota was relieved of his command in the Philippines and replaced by Tama Yuki.…”

“This is back in September 1945. And after receiving the official notification that Japan had capitulated and there was a general, the general that we've been talking about, Yamashita, appears in the Philippines and basically…”

“the prime minister there called Tojo, who recalled him and salted him away in Manchuria for the bulk of the war. But by mid-1944, Tojo had been forced out of office and General Yamashita was moved from Manchuria to Luzon in the Philippines …”

“He was charged with war crimes because of the atrocities committed against. But many of those were committed by the admiral as opposed to Yamashita. That was also on Manila, on the Philippines, in Manila. So the U.S. as a sovereign power tr…”

“vainglorious man who wanted revenge for being made to look incompetent because basically he was responsible for kicking MacArthur's butt off of the Philippines to begin with. And so they believe this was a revenge effort from MacArthur. But…”