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With hardly a shot fired, General Tomoyuki Yamashita unloaded his main invasion force troops in rough waters off Singora Beach, just north of the Thai border. They had little trouble marching southward into Malaya. Orders from British headquarters in Singapore called for defending the border "to the last man," since "our whole position in the Far East is at stake," but the only force assigned to do so was an ill-trained, ill-equipped Indian division. It had neither tanks nor antitank guns, because the British had declared the jungle "impenetrable." As Japanese tanks pressed southward, the force retreated...
According to the author's somewhat breathless account, when Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita ("the Tiger of Malaya") moved to Manila in 1944, he took charge of several billion dollars' worth of gold that the Japanese had accumulated in their conquest of Southeast Asia. The bullion was cached in underground caves dug by U.S. and Filipino prisoners of war, who were then buried alive with it. Seagrave claims that Marcos was able to disperse the gold with the aid of a murky global network of coconspirators, including Swiss banks, a London-based bullion cartel, right-wing American political groups (among them...
...Tomoyuki Shima: bassist, performing with his ensemble, Berklee Performance Center, Berklee College of Music, 1140 Boylston...
...crouched behind a coconut log gasp: 'Hey, there's General MacArthur!' Without turning to look, the G.I. beside him drawled, 'Oh, yeah? And I suppose he's got Eleanor Roosevelt along with him.' Apparently enemy soldiers were just as incredulous. After the war [Tomoyuki] Yamashita said that despite mounting evidence to the contrary, he couldn't believe that MacArthur was really there on that first day of the invasion...
...join the Army General Staff in 1918, he survived the torpedoing of his troopship. In World War II, he served as a liaison officer with scientists developing the atomic bomb, witnessed the Japanese surrender in the Philippines, and headed the military tribunal that convicted Japan's General Tomoyuki Yamashita and sentenced him to death for wartime atrocities...