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General Tomoyuki Yamashita was one of the most feared men in World War 2. Dubbed as ‘The Tiger of Malaya’ because of his conquest of the nation within 70 days from the British, Yamashita was one of Japan's most significant military assets.

The general also planned and carried out the ignominious fall of Singapore from the United Kingdom to Japan, which Prime Minister Winston Churchill once called the largest capitulation in English military history.

Despite his lengthy list of feats during the conflict, General Yamashita's personal legacy is mainly tied to an almost 80-year-old mystery that supposedly occurred during the last months of World War 2.

For decades after the war, professional and amateur treasure hunters have traveled to the Filipino mountains to search for a legendary bounty worth hundreds of billions of dollars, with one Filipino man even suing the president for the value of a supposedly stolen Golden Buddha…

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