Underground Knowledge — A discussion group discussion
This topic is about
The Orphan Conspiracies
YAMASHITA'S GOLD (WW2 COVER-UP)
>
Riches without equal
date
newest »
newest »
Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China
Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold
Listen to American whistleblower and former World Bank Employee Karen Hudes talking about the Ferdinand Marcos Gold in the Philippines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2SMx...Who is Karen Hudes?
Karen Hudes studied law at Yale Law School and economics at the University of Amsterdam. She worked in the US Export Import Bank of the US from 1980-1985 and in the Legal Department of the World Bank from 1986-2007. She established the Non Governmental Organization Committee of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association and the Committee on Multilateralism and the Accountability of International Organizations of the American Branch of the International Law Association.
Philippines: Two Tons Of Platinum Discovered - 1995 (Associated Press) http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
The Marcos Family’s Undocumented TRILLION$ (Riches in the Philippines) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4Mhj...
🎉 Paperback Giveaway Has Begun! 📚The Emperor & Financial Game — a #1 Amazon Bestseller in:
🏆 Historical Chinese Fiction
🏆 Two-Hour Business & Money Short Reads
🥈 #2 in Wealth Management
This gripping and fast-paced novel is perfect for readers who enjoy strategic intrigue, financial conspiracies, and historical mysteries rooted in real-world events.
💡 More than just a story, this book is a powerful lesson in Wealth Management — offering insights and secrets you won’t find in any textbook.
🗓️ Giveaway ends on August 12, 2025 — don’t miss your chance to win a free copy!
Underground Knowledge — A discussion group
Books mentioned in this topic
Dragon Lady: The Life and Legend of the Last Empress of China (other topics)Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold (other topics)
The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy (other topics)
The Ninth Orphan (other topics)
Japan gained enormous wealth when it invaded China and a dozen or so other Asian countries during the WW2. Besides the Philippines and China, other countries and territories Japan occupied include Korea, Hong Kong, Guam, Taiwan, Portuguese Timor, Thailand, Burma and French Indochina – a large French colony now part of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam – as well as Singapore, Brunei and other British colonies in the lands now known as Malaysia and Indonesia.
To say the Japanese Empire was vast would be an understatement. In terms of accumulated wealth and total population under its control, it was one of the largest empires in the history of the world.
Essentially, within the space of a few short years, Japan systematically stripped every conceivable wealth from the bulk of Asia. At the behest of Emperor Hirohito, the Imperial Army methodically pillaged everything of value they could find and almost literally left no stone unturned. This included ransacking museums and government treasuries, banks, royal palaces, temples, churches and mosques, and even the private homes of wealthy families.
The conquering Japanese were primarily after gold, a commodity that was not in short supply in Asia at that time. In fact, the elite ruling families in Asian countries had been collecting and storing gold – often hidden in ancestral tombs and the like – for up to 4000 years.
Japanese soldiers looted bullion by the truckload, and very little of the precious metal escaped their grasp. Accounts of them extracting gold fillings from the teeth of corpses is but one of many examples of their ruthless meticulousness.
In addition to these incalculable amounts of gold, gigantic quantities of diamonds, silver, platinum, precious gems, royal jewels and religious artifacts were also stolen. These colossal treasure troves were shipped to the Philippines in preparation for transportation to Japan. However, as the war in the Pacific intensified, the ever-increasing presence of Allied ships and US submarines made the transport of such treasure problematic for Japan. As a result, most of it had to be hidden in the Philippines.
That done, the treasure sites were booby-trapped by the Japanese to protect the riches they contained. The plan was to recover the assets after the war’s end. Of course, the Japanese assumed they’d be victorious over the Allied war machine.
Some researchers and treasure-hunters claim there are Imperial Japanese army maps in existence that reveal the whereabouts of these treasure sites. A series of the most important locations, known as Trillion Yen sites, contained gold and other precious metals valued during the war at one trillion yen. That’s 1,000,000,000,000 yen!
Taking inflation into account, one trillion yen in 1945 currency equates to approximately US$250 billion dollars, or a quarter of a trillion, per site in today’s money. That’s why we specify this figure in The Ninth Orphan as being the value of the treasure site Nine finds on behalf of his shadowy employers.
"Initially, there were dozens of Trillion Yen sites in the Philippines, but Naylor had confirmed that after the waves of bounty hunters – first the Americans under General MacArthur, then Marcos decades later – only one such site remained. Despite many attempts to find the location, it had remained undiscovered until Nine found it. The crafty orphan had somehow uncovered the elusive site’s location in the province of Benguet." –The Ninth Orphan