You think he needs to be part of the 1000 peso bill? me thinks so!

JUAN M. ELIZALDE
(1902 – 1944)
War Hero and Industrialist
One of the four Elizalde brothers who pioneered in business and internationally known
sports in the Philippines, Juan M. Elizalde was born in Manila on February 3, 1902 to Joaquin J.
Elizalde and Carmen Diaz Moreau. He acquired his education in Spain, the United States, and
England. After his studies abroad, he returned home to join his father and brothers in the
management and supervision of Elizalde & Company, Incorporated, the family firm, which was
engaged in commercial and industrial activities.
Established by his father in 1854 as the Ynchausti Compania, the firm began as a ship
chandlery store along the banks of the Pasig River.
The growth and expansion of Elizalde and Company, Inc. was largely due to the business
acumen and able leadership of its founders, particularly Juan Elizalde, who was its vice president.
He was also the vice – president of the Anakan Lumber Company, and director of the following
companies: Central Azucarera de Sara – Ajuy, Metropolitan Insurance Company and National
Development Company. Married to a Californian, Janice Meritt, he was a “model employer who
saw to it that his thousands of employees in the varied and extensive business interest of his family
lived comfortably, decently, and contentedly.”
When the Second World War broke out, Elizalde, a captain in the reserve corps of the
Philippine Army, led a small but brave group of Filipino guerillas known as the “28 Men of Fort
Santiago.” This underground resistance movement, whose operation he personally supervised and
financed, worked closely inside enemy territory to provide the commander of the United States
Forces in the Far east (USAFFE), General Douglas MacArthur, daily reports of Japanese defenses
and troop movements in the Philippines. The Japanese placed it under close surveillance through
a counter – espionage group.
In early February 1944, Elizalde, along with the rest of the “28 Men of Fort Santiago,” was
arrested. They were confined in the dungeons of Fort Santiago in Manila. Elizalde pleaded with
the Japanese to have his companions freed, saying that as the leader of the group, he alone should
be punished. He told them that he was solely responsible for the sinking of 38 Japanese warships.
His admission and pleas in behalf of his comrades went for naught. They were taken to the
Chinese Cemetery compound, where they were beheaded on August 29 – 30, 1944.
For his heroic wartime exploits, particularly as leader of the “28 Men of Fort Santiago,”
Elizalde posthumously received the Distinguished Conduct Star Medal.
References:
Cornejo, M.R. Commonwealth Directory of the Philippines. Manila,1939.
Hartendorp , A.V.H. Japanese Occupation of the Philippines Volumes 1 and 2. Manila:
Bookmark, 1967.

http://www.nhi.gov.ph/downloads/mp0059.pdf

I took the liberty of copying the old threads so that everyone can see the entire collection of photos! :)

Thank you! It is easier to find other articles as regards to the topic :D

Thank you! It is easier to find other articles as regards to the topic :D

Yes, I am proposing some changes in the forum. Let's see how this will work out. :)

Hey, I was born in 1958, only 13 years after the war. I have met and talked to a lot of survivors of the war, including my parents. I knew many who were maimed at hte hands of the Japanese, two of them left to die after a botched beheading attempt. One of them was just, at the time of the incident, a thirteen year old girl.

I read some anti'American sentiments on these threads, but in all my years of tlaking and sharing with all these indidviduals while I was growing up, none of them had anything but praise for the American soldierand filipino guerillas.

There was nothing the Americans could do. The Japs were deeply entrenched within the city limits and refused to leave. The Americans had no choice but to soften up the city before with artillery and bobmbing raids before sending in the infantry. Our guerillas working with the Amercans also benefited from this action, and also ran an underground warning system to warn the inhabitants of an impending operation. As much as the underground tried, the word would not get around fast enough for the whole population to be alerted to an allied bombardment. So if you were stuck in the city, well, ganoon talaga.


These are from the stories my parents and other elders passed down to us during our kuwentuhan times. My parents and their families had to run from bomb shelter to bomb shelter, sometimes not eating for days. My dad's family was able to evacuate to Montalban. My mom, whose family lived in the Ermita district before the war, fled to San Juan, but it wasn't much easier.

There was nothing to eat. If they found a dead horse, or carabao, they would see if it was still fresh enough to cook and eat. War is hell, as they say, hope the Philippines will never have to go through such devastatiobn again.

I have read some accounts and seen docus saying that the Japanese didn't let many Manila citizens get out of the city. WW2 Phils historian Ricardo Jose said that if Manila was not retaken, more citizens could have died of starvation.

I read accounts and seen documentaries where it showed that even before the Allied forces advanced to Manila, the Japanese marines we're already burning buildings and houses...

I think the bitter fact here is that the US helped Japan rebuild its economy compared to the Philippines. We provided them aid and information vital to driving out the Japanese yet the Truman admin just left us alone.

Another bitter fact. Extreme left in the US let Japan get away with their war crimes and even allow historical revisionism of Japan's involvement in ww2 and "cleansing" its atrocities. They complain so much about Nagasaki and Hiroshima yet ignoring the million of people slaughtered by the Japanese elsewhere, usually in the most brutal way

Even former American guerillas are saddened of the US treatment of the post-war Philippines...and the shared valor in Bataan and Corregidor.

Take this opinion of mind with a grain of salt but I feel that if the allied forces (meaning Fil guerillas and the 6th army) have skipped Manila, it would more or less suffer the same fate...according to historian Ricardo Jose, there are documents pointing that the "rape of Manila" was not random but something "planned". Even the massacres in Manila was planned according to him.

The Japanese knew they will never be able to hold Manila or even the Philippines so they caused as much destruction as they could to delay the invasion of the homeland

But the US could have just nuked the Imperial House in Japan. Probably no Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan might have surrendered earlier. LOL. But then again, that might result to the extermination of Japan because its citizens might all have committed suicide. (Just think of Okinawa where the IJA ordered the civilians to kill themselves):lol:

Fil-Am War led to Vietnam, Iraq mess
By Lito B. Zulueta | Philippine Daily Inquirer | 08/30/2010
read full article here (http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20100830-289484/Fil-Am-War-led-to-Vietnam-Iraq-mess)

The movie implies that today’s low-intensity warfare and hamletting originated from the American policy to constrict the Philippine resistance in the early 1900s.

But the American detail is also directed to “win the hearts and minds” of Filipinos. Trying to settle down with the natives, the Americans find the locals hospitable and the surroundings bucolic.

…

When the village chief leads the Americans on a wild goose chase to protect his brother and son, the commanding officer orders his execution.

The lieutenant, who is otherwise conscientious and would like to see Dacanay get off the hook, wonders aloud why the resistance fighters just wouldn’t give up despite their irreversible losses and the impending American victory.

“Why should they?” his subordinate tells him. “It’s their country.”

:nuts:

initially i was a bit offended thinking that we were being blamed for for the american's "trip" to vietnam and iraq. upon reading, i found out that it was just saying that we were the "original" vietnam.

IDK, I don't remember the US building hospitals, schools, etc in Vietnam?

They Philippines should never had sought independence from the united state. I know some will say this is giving in to the american imperialism and I cant really say what the condition of the philippine society might have been if Quezon et al did not sell the Filipinos future to the devil. But I can say for cetain that if we are still an integral part of america at this time we will never be dealing with problems such as the rebels (NPA/abu sayaf), squaters, runaway birth rate, coup d etat, good for nothing politicians, NAIA 3, polluted pasig river/manila bay/laguna lake, deforested mountains, extreme poverty,MD-RN, parents leaving kids behind to work overseas.etc.

If that happened, we would have more problem than TX, AZ, NM and CA about illegals. :lol:

Just think of it. There will probably be more illegals than citizens had we become a state :lol::lol::lol:

There are just 1 B Chinese up there! And as a 'third world country', it is surprising that there are 100,000 undocumented Chinese.

In Clint Eastwood's two acclaimed films Flags of Our Father and Letters from Iwo Jima, he had depicted the respectively the American and Japanese perspectives of world war 2. I wonder when Hollywood will make a film on the Battle of Corregidor that will depict it from the Filipinos' perspective?

Given the politically correct nature of present-day US politics, unlikely. Hollywood will be given a flak by PC people for portraying the "evil Japanese" soldier

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This book is a very good read. It is by Jintaro Ishida and he has interviewed Japanese soldiers who where stationed in Batangas, Laguna etc. and where involved in WWII. He also interviewed Filipino survivors who suffered under the Japanese occupation.

(There are various thoughts and reactions given out during the interview)

I highly recommend this book.

For a Japanese, very gutsy, I must say. Salute him. Today, some Japanese historians would try to "white wash" their ww2 history

I saw a documentary on youtube about a Japanese soldier who participated int he Unit731 and he wants his gov't to acknowledge their ww2 atrocities. Interesting people. :D

KUNG SINO MAN MAY COPYA NG AMIGO MOVIE, PAUUPLOAD NAMAN. :D

I have read some accounts and seen docus saying that the Japanese didn't let many Manila citizens get out of the city. WW2 Phils historian Ricardo Jose said that if Manila was not retaken, more citizens could have died of starvation.

I read accounts and seen documentaries where it showed that even before the Allied forces advanced to Manila, the Japanese marines we're already burning buildings and houses...

I think the bitter fact here is that the US helped Japan rebuild its economy compared to the Philippines. We provided them aid and information vital to driving out the Japanese yet the Truman admin just left us alone.

Another bitter fact. Extreme left in the US let Japan get away with their war crimes and even allow historical revisionism of Japan's involvement in ww2 and "cleansing" its atrocities. They complain so much about Nagasaki and Hiroshima yet ignoring the million of people slaughtered by the Japanese elsewhere, usually in the most brutal way

Even former American guerillas are saddened of the US treatment of the post-war Philippines...and the shared valor in Bataan and Corregidor.

Take this opinion of mind with a grain of salt but I feel that if the allied forces (meaning Fil guerillas and the 6th army) have skipped Manila, it would more or less suffer the same fate...according to historian Ricardo Jose, there are documents pointing that the "rape of Manila" was not random but something "planned". Even the massacres in Manila was planned according to him.

The Japanese knew they will never be able to hold Manila or even the Philippines so they caused as much destruction as they could to delay the invasion of the homeland

But the US could have just nuked the Imperial House in Japan. Probably no Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan might have surrendered earlier. LOL. But then again, that might result to the extermination of Japan because its citizens might all have committed suicide. (Just think of Okinawa where the IJA ordered the civilians to kill themselves):lol:

^^^^ I think the retrospective process regarding the 1945 holocaust of Manila should also take into consideration the 1944 conference at Pearl Harbor where FDR, Gen. MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz debated whether the US counter-offense strategy against Japan should initiate landings on either Formosa (Taiwan) or Luzon. MacArthur won out, claiming that the US held a moral obligation to redeem the promise of "I shall return" to the Filipinos. Consider therefore what may have transpired had Formosa been the chosen battlefield instead of Luzon/Manila...

The what ifs in history.

Had the landings in Formosa taken place (then a Japanese colony), I wonder how would Filipinos of that day feel. It is to my understanding (from the personal memoirs of guerillas) that they were really hoping that MacArthur would "come back".

On the other hand, would the Japanese really have spared us? From what I know, they want to delay the homeland invasion by wreaking havoc. They could have or they could have held us as their "hostage" and negotiating pawn. We can never tell.

The Japanese had a quarter million troops stationed in Luzon. I wonder why they didn't pull out and send those to the home islands instead

In one documentary I saw, it said there were orders from Tokyo that kill all Filipinos in the battlefield. I'm am not sure when that was issued (it wasn't said when in the docu) however in August 1944 (some months before the landing), there were orders to execute all POW. The IJA, save for some sane people, seem to have hate the Filipinos.

In the end, given the nukes, it was probably even unnecessary to land in Formosa. They could have nuked the area near the imperial house since, after all, the Emperor was agreeing to the atrocities. It's not as if he was clueless.

So much what ifs in history. Even the a-bomb has full of what ifs and "morality" debate, usually taken from the POV of Japan or US. Hardly from the non-Japanese Asians...

Been reading posts here...

SOME Philippine guerilla groups are not less innocent when it comes to atrocities towards 'enemy combatants'

http://www.timawa.net/forum/index.php?topic=5673.0

kinda reminds me of the Soviets paring German women in Berlin

Been reading posts here...

SOME Philippine guerilla groups are not less innocent when it comes to atrocities towards 'enemy combatants'

http://www.timawa.net/forum/index.php?topic=5673.0

kinda reminds me of the Soviets paring German women in Berlin

They did horrible things too during the Fil- American war. As well as the Americans, of course. That's why I always tell people war can be evil no matter which side you are.

Oldest survivor of Bataan Death March dies at 105 (http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/08/15/oldest_survivor_of_bataan_death_march_dies_at_105/?page=2)

By Jim Suhr
Associated Press / August 15, 2011

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This undated family photo shows Bataan Death March survivor Albert Brown in uniform during World War II. Brown died Sunday, Aug. 14, 2011, in Nashville, Ill., at the age of 105. (AP Photo/Family photo via The Southern Illinoisan

ST. LOUIS—A doctor once told Albert Brown he shouldn't expect to make it to 50, given the toll taken by his years in a Japanese labor camp during World War II and the infamous, often-deadly march that got him there. But the former dentist made it to 105, embodying the power of a positive spirit in the face of inordinate odds.

"Doc" Brown was nearly 40 in 1942 when he endured the Bataan Death March, a harrowing 65-mile trek in which 78,000 prisoners of war were forced to walk from Bataan province near Manila to a Japanese POW camp. As many as 11,000 died along the way. Many were denied food, water and medical care, and those who stumbled or fell during the scorching journey through Philippine jungles were stabbed, shot or beheaded.

But Brown survived and secretly documented it all, using a nub of a pencil to scrawl details into a tiny tablet he concealed in the lining of his canvas bag. He often wondered why captives so much younger and stronger perished, while he went on.

By the time he died Sunday at a nursing home in southern Illinois' Nashville, Brown's story was well-chronicled, by one author's account offering an encouraging road map for veterans recovering from their own wounds in many wars.

"Doc's story had as much relevance for today's wounded warriors as it did for the veterans of his own era," said Kevin Moore, co-author of the recently released "Forsaken Heroes of the Pacific War: One Man's True Story," which details Brown's experience.

"The underlying message for today's returning veterans is that there's hope, not to give in no matter how bleak the moment may seem," added Moore, whose nephew just returned from military duty in Afghanistan. "You will persevere and can find the promise of a new tomorrow, much like Doc had found."

Brown, recognized in 2007 at an annual convention of Bataan survivors as the oldest one still living, couldn't muster the strength to talk about his experiences until about 15 or so years ago, said his granddaughter, Susan Engelhardt of Pinckneyville, Ill.

"I'm not a big military buff at all. But just reading the story about the death march and the situation in the Philippines, it's an incredible story. And incredibly sad," Engelhardt said. "He's an incredible man, and he had an incredible legacy. He came through horrible times and came out on top, rebuilding his life. But so many of those men and women triumphed."

Brown's account described the torment that came about every mile as the marchers passed wells U.S. troops dug for natives but weren't allowed to drink from once they became prisoners. Filipinos who tried to throw fruit to the marchers frequently were killed.

Brown remained in a POW camp from early 1942 until mid-September 1945, living solely on rice. The once-athletic man -- he lettered in baseball, football, basketball and track in high school -- saw his weight whither by some 80 pounds to less than 100 by the time he was freed. Lice and disease were rampant.

Despite the hardships, Brown focused on bright spots, including a prisoner called on to fix Japanese soldiers' radios. The prisoner managed to steal radio parts, scraping together enough components to build a functioning unit of his own. Brown helped craft a listening tube for the device, which brought the captives news from San Francisco that the U.S. actually had won a battle the Japanese soldiers were celebrating as a naval victory.

"He had this incredible spirit to live and overcome," Moore said. "Positive thinking or whatever you call it, he survived."

Born in 1905 in North Platte, Neb., Brown was the godson of Wild West folk hero "Buffalo Bill" Cody, who often let the boy sit on his lap and tug his beard. Brown moved with his family to Council Bluffs, Iowa, after his father -- a railroad engineer -- died when a locomotive engine exploded.

He studied dentistry at Creighton University in the 1920s and was called to active duty in 1937, leaving behind a wife, children and a decade-old dental practice his war injuries prevented him from resuming.

By the time the war ended in 1945, the 40-year-old Brown was nearly blind, had weathered a broken back and neck and suffered through more than a dozen diseases including malaria, dysentery and dengue fever.

He took two years to mend, and a doctor told him to enjoy the next few years because he had been so decimated he would be dead by 50. But Brown soldiered on, moving to California, attending college again and renting out properties to the era's biggest Hollywood stars, including Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland. He became friends with John Wayne and Roy Rogers, doing some screen tests along the way.

"I think he had seen so much horror that after the war, he was determined to enjoy his life," Moore said.

Thank you, Rubio

THE WAR YEARS (MANILA MASSACRE OF 1945): THE NEAR-DEATH AND HORRIFIC EXPERIENCE OF CORAZON NOBLE (http://video48.blogspot.com/2011/03/war-years-manila-massacre-of-1945-near.html)



In my honest opinion, I think the government should mandate that between Feb 2 -March 2, that the Manila massacre be commemorated, just like how we commemorate the fall of Bataan. This slaughter of civilians must be remembered and not forgotten, and a commemoration will be a solid defense against Japanese apologists(not necessarily a Japanese national) who write revisionist history not only of the Battle of Manila, but how the entire Pacific war was. Revisionists and Japanese apologists are even "sanitizing" the Bataan Death March. There is an utter need to preserve these in the minds of the Filipinos.

The Japanese commemorates the A-bombs, we should commemorate this dark day, too

I totally agree. I think the city government of Manila should come up like Battle of Manila month, it doesn't have to be an official holiday, they can have month long commemoration with events, museum displays, tv documentaries etc. We can start a petition online, send it to the city council of Manila, the National Historical commission.

JAPANESE SURRENDER: PHILIPPINES

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Japanese Troops Emerging From Jungle With White Flag

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Formal Signing of Surrender


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Japanese Soldiers Saluting American Soldiers

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Japanese Soldiers In Line Turning In Their Gear

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Sick Japanese Soldier on Stretcher

^^^^ such a contrast in treatments when compared with how the Japanese dealt with their American captives at Bataan and Corregidor.

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photo from: NATIVES OF LA UNION Facebook

This is a pro-Japanese video, scenes in colour when Jap troops & tanks entered Manila. segment 01:51 shows Jap tanks parade in front of Rizal's monument at the Luneta.

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Neilson Field, Manila, Philippines, Jan. 6, 1945

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After carrier aircraft strikes.

In this picture can be seen the terminal building that is the Filipinas Heritage Library today on Makati Avenue across from the Peninsula Hotel. www.filipinaslibrary.org.ph/

This area is now Makati City. Nielson Field was Manila International Airport 1937 to 1948. Nielson Field airport was built on a 42-hectare piece of land in Makati owned by Ayala y Cia. After the airport was closed the runways were eventually converted into roads and the tall buildings of today were built along side.


Neilson Field, Manila, Philippines, 1945

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During blanket aircraft parafrag attack by the 13th AF.

This area is now Makati City. Nielson Field was Manila International Airport 1937 to 1948. Nielson Field airport was built on a 42-hectare piece of land in Makati owned by Ayala y Cia. After the airport was closed the runways were eventually converted into roads and the tall buildings of today were built along side.



Nickols and Neilson Fields being bombed by 13th AAF B-24 Liberators, Manila, Philippines 1945. Nickols is on the left edge of the photo. Neilson is lower center.


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The rack track was also bombed because the Japanese usually used them as supply dumps or motor parks. Cavite can be seen at the top of the picture in Manila Bay.

This area is now Makati City. Nielson Field was Manila International Airport 1937 to 1948. Nielson Field airport was built on a 42-hectare piece of land in Makati owned by Ayala y Cia. After the airport was closed the runways were eventually converted into roads and the tall buildings of today were built along side.



Photos and captions by: John T. Pilot (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johntewell/)

some symbols as seen through the eyes of 2 colonial powers - in film by the Spanish and in stone by the Americans. El Ultimo de Filipinas meant the end of the last vestiges of her empire on the Philippine front (with the Battle of Baler) while the Spanish War Veterans was a memorial to the rising power of the United States with the transfer of the Philippines, Cuba and Puerto Rico.

In another way, the Spanish American War was also a galvanizing event to unite a still divided US North and South a few decades after the US Civil War. Which is why one sees "To unite our strife-torn nation" on this stone memorial in the former seat of the Confederacy. The US memorial is shaped like a cross.

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For a Japanese, very gutsy, I must say. Salute him. Today, some Japanese historians would try to "white wash" their ww2 history

I saw a documentary on youtube about a Japanese soldier who participated int he Unit731 and he wants his gov't to acknowledge their ww2 atrocities. Interesting people. :D


I found this interesting thread:)

white wash? please teach me concretely 。。
731?　ask american and check it out in US　national library
Japan gave them all infromation and document

many Japanese decendants who move to Philippines and had a nothing to do with war were killed after war
even the chinese might not do that

an Australian war memoir
It is interesting although it is written how Japanese soldiers were cruel. ^^
http://guyharrison.squarespace.com/bravejapanese/
http://guyharrison.squarespace.com/storage/thebravejapanese/The%20Brave%20Japanese.pdf

Neighbor of Philippines , Palau war Memories

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The people of palau have celebration to the Emperor.

I found this interesting thread:)

white wash? please teach me concretely 。。
731?　ask american and check it out in US　national library
Japan gave them all infromation and document

many Japanese decendants who move to Philippines and had a nothing to do with war were killed after war
even the chinese might not do that

He mentioned "some" Japanese and it is true that there are some. Not the majority of course, as most or all of the Japanese I know are not proud of the war atrocities. But there are some extreme right Japanese who have that mentality.

Please,what are you trying to instigate with that paragraph in bold? That we are worse that Chinese because some Japanese are killed "after the war"? What do you mean by that? That the present day Japanese who are killed in the country is because of what Japan did in the war? What basis do you have with that statement because I find it insulting to us Filipinos.

We are a very forgetful people, and because of that, we are also forgiving. Too forgiving in fact. I take offense with what you say (even though I'm here studying in Japan right now) because Filipinos don't look at Japanese the same way that Koreans and Chinese do (with a lot of historical ill feelings) even if we did suffer from the same atrocities, and here you are looking down on us as "worse than Chinese".

He mentioned "some" Japanese and it is true that there are some. Not the majority of course, as most or all of the Japanese I know are not proud of the war atrocities. But there are some extreme right Japanese who have that mentality.

who is an exterm right japanese? what did they say?
please give me an example
at first, this is not belief of religion
we need an evidence.
that was a war. japanese soldiers surely killed many innocent people
however, why Japan must admit that has not done?
like this
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Do you know “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”? This book was fabricated “Fiction” for the purpose of arousing anti-Semitic among Russian people by the secret police of the Russian Empire in 1905. This book made Jew’s plot theory “The Jew is plotting the world domination” known to European society. Though numerous independent investigations have repeatedly proven it to be a plagiarism and a hoax, many European people believed the rumor “The Jew is plotting the world domination”.

The Protocols also became a part of the Nazi propaganda effort to justify persecution of the Jews. Hitler said, “Whether this book is true is not important. The existence of this book is very important.” Hitler used the Protocols as a manual in his war to exterminate the Jews. As a result, the largest-ever tragedy occurred.Ted Leonsis who produced Film “Nanking” repeats the same words, “Rape of Nanking is Forgotten Holocaust. Though Japan invaded China, raped women and murdered 200,000 Chinese, Japan never admits this war crime and Japan never apologize to China.” Ted Leonsis’ words are the completely same as Chinese government’s statement. And yet, he excuses as follows,”This documentary film is not an anti-Japan film but an anti-war film.” I don’t think so. The purpose of Film “Nanking” is to impress upon people in the world for how Japanese are cruel and barbarous. Ted leonsis is the person who scatters “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” to the world. The exclusive nationalism gains power all over the world. I worry about the misfortune that will happen to all Japanese in the future. We Japanese must fight against “Rumormonger” Ted Leonsis now

that is why I am afraid and deny the lie.

Spanish era
The Japanese population in the Philippines has since included descendants of Japanese Catholics and other Japanese Christians who fled from the religious persecution imposed by the Tokugawa shogunate during the Edo period and settled during the colonial period from the 17th century until the 19th century. A statue of daimyo Ukon Takayama, who was exiled to the Philippines in 1614 because he refused to disvow his Christian beliefs, stands a patch of land across the road from the Post Office building in the Paco area of Manila. In the 17th century, the Spaniards referred to the Paco Area as the 'Yellow Plaza' because of the more than 3,000 Japanese who resided there.[11]
Many of the Japanese men intermarried with Filipino women (including those of mixed or unmixed Spanish and Chinese descent), thus forming the new Japanese mestizo community. A sizeable population settled in Manila, Davao, the Visayas and in the 1600s in Dilao, Paco and Ilocos Norte Province. This hybrid group tend to be re-assimilated either into the Filipino or the Japanese communities, and thus no accurate denominations could be established, though their estimates range from 100,000 to 200,000. Many were killed or expelled after World War II because of their alleged collaboration with the Japanese Imperial Army (mostly as translator). Many Japanese mestizos tended to deny their Japanese heritage and changed their family names in order to avoid discrimination.


American period and the Post-WWII era
During the American colonial era, the number of Japanese laborers working in plantations rose so high that in the 20th century, Davao soon became dubbed as a Ko Nippon Koku ("Little Japan" in Japanese) with a Japanese school, a Shinto shrine and a diplomatic mission from Japan. There is even a popular restaurant called "The Japanese Tunnel", which includes an actual tunnel built by the Japanese during World War II.[12]
For fear of discrimination, some fled to the mountains after World War II while many others changed their names in the attempts to assimilate. Many were also killed (c. 10,000 Japanese Mestizos and Japanese) while others were deported as an act of retaliation. Their Japanese identity may take on extremes, some have completely lost their Japanese identity while others have "returned" to Japan, the homeland of their forebears. There is also a number of contemporary Japanese-mestizos, not associated with the history of the earlier established ones, born either in the Philippines or Japan. These latter are the resultant of unions between Filipinos and recent Japanese immigrants to the Philippines or Japanese and immigrant Filipino workers in Japan. Most Japanese mestizos speak Philippine languages and Tagalog. They may also be known as Japinos, although this term is considered derogatory by many. There are believed to be between 100,000 and 200,000 Japanese-mestizos in the country, but no accurate figure is currently available. Thousands of war-displaced ethnic Japanese still live in the country and are denied recognition as Japanese nationals in order to return to Japan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_settlement_in_the_Philippines

are there any links or history books regarding the accounts of the BLOODY Philippine-American War without taintings probably from a true-blooded filipino historians where american atrocities were documented and real victories of our soldiers againts the american forces during that war?i heard interesting stories from a colleague of mine from a previous company his hobby is the collection of anything related to the philippine soldiers history including accounts never published in any textbooks, one i remember is the exploit of the sniper elite teams that snuff the life of Gen Lawton, they are called the "tiradores dela muerte"

By: Antonio C. Hila (http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/15743/ncca-launches-guide-to-‘cuerpo-de-vigilancia’-newly-discovered-historical-documents-on-1896-revolution)
Philippine Daily Inquirer

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The Calendar of Documents in the Archives of Cuerpo de Vigilancia de Manila,” a guide to the Cuerpo de Vigilancia, a body of documents on the Philippine revolutionary movement, 1896-1898, popularly referred to as the Katipunan and Rizal Documents, was recently launched at the Leandro V. Locsin Auditorium, National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA).

Published by the Philippine National Historical Society (PNHS) through a grant from the NCCA, the book’s launching was attended by scholars, historians, history teachers as well as students of history.

Lorelei D.C. de Viana, PNHS board member, hosted the program.
NCCA chairman Felipe de Leon Jr. and executive director Malou Jacob led the launching.

The documents consist of printed materials, transcripts, confidential reports, newspaper clippings from Spanish and Philippine dailies, and photographs.
Former NCCA executive director Carmen Padilla briefly detailed the saga of the Cuerpo, saying the existence of the body of documents was brought to her attention by then Philippine Ambassador to Spain Isabel Caro Wilson.
Padilla said the NCCA purchased it in 1996 from Enrique Montero.

She said the late Madrid-based Filipino lawyer-historian and consul Antonio Molina, a former professor of history and law at University of Santo Tomas, had attested to the documents’ authenticity and the legitimacy of Montero’s ownership.

Moreover, Isagani R. Medina and Samuel K. Tan had attested to the importance and value of the documents.

Bernardita Reyes Churchill, executive editor of the book and president of PNHS, said it was in 1997 the NCCA’s Committee on Historical Research broached the idea of providing a brief summary, not a translation, of the documents, consisting of 5,506 pages. She explained the guide would be of great help to researchers on Philippine history.

Spy body

Churchill said the Cuerpo de Vigilancia was set up in 1895, shortly before the outbreak of the revolution against Spain in 1896, as an intelligence corps of the Spanish government. It was headed by Federico Moreno.

The intelligence reports were relayed to the Governor General through Manuel Luengo, then gobernador civil de Manila.

Indios as well mestizos acted as agents. Cuerpo closely monitored the activities of residents of Manila and of the nearby provinces; they were suspected of subversion. These persons included not only natives but also Spaniards born in the country and Spaniards born in the Peninsula. Chinese mestizos were also suspects.

Materials contained in the Cuerpo cannot be found in the National Archives, although the latter has some collection on personnel of the Cuerpo, according to history researcher José Custodio.

The importance of the Cuerpo in historical study cannot be overemphasized. Churchill said the information it provided was useful in reconstructing the Revolutionary period, a very significant period of the country’s history, as it deals with the struggle for national independence.

Some of the information contained in the documents may not be accurate, as intelligence data also include rumor or hearsay. The point of view is certainly Spanish as the agents were reporting about the anti-Spanish activities of the indio insurrectos.

As such, Churchill cautioned researchers and urged them to read the documents carefully.

Equally important is the fact that the documents “provide interesting insights into our history and character as a people,” she added.

The book provides generous summaries of the documents; it is definitely a collector’s item, owing to its scholarly import.



Eden Mahalo Gripaldo and Digna Balangue Apilado are associate editors.

Consultants and translators are De Viana, Trinidad Regala, Evelyn C. Soriano, Wystan S. de la Peña, Maria Elosa de Castro, Lilia Ramos de Leon, Jose Antonio C. Custodio, Rolando O. Borinaga and Rolando M. Gripaldo.

For inquiry, call NCCA at 5272192-97, and the PNHS, 9214575 or 9261347.
Antonio Hila lectures on history at the UST Graduate School.

Mga salbahe at verdugo talaga iyong mga japon, koreanos at mga aleman!!

The Japs, Koreans & Germans were really barbaric and treacherous forces!! One should never forget!!

By Barbara Mae Dacanay, Bureau Chief (http://gulfnews.com/news/world/philippines/us-nun-returns-bells-soldiers-stole-from-philippines-in-1901-1.897171)
Published: 18:21 October 17, 2011



Manila: An American nun returned two small bells that were taken by American soldiers from a church in northern suburban Bulacan in 1899, during the Philippine-American war, a local paper said.

On October 8, Sr. Judith Frikker, president of the Sisters of Mercy (SOM) based in Omaha, Nebraska returned two small bells that American soldiers took when their forces took over a church in Meycausayan, Bulacan in 1899, to Philippine Consul General Leo Herrera-Lim in Chicago, the Inquirer said.
Extraordinary journey

"The bells have taken an extraordinary journey. Only the bells and God know the journey the artifacts have taken," the Inquirer quoted Lim to have told the Omaha World-Herald which reported the event.

Replicas of the bells will be made for the Philippine consulate in Chicago, and for the SOM, said Lim.

He also asked Manila's National Museum for more details on the bells, how they landed under the custody of the American nuns in mid-west.

Reminders of the US-Philippines war

They were "reminders of the war between the United States and the Philippines, which took place from 1899 to 1902," the inscription added.

The bells from Bulacan were "priceless pieces of our heritage," Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario, a former Philippine ambassador to the United States, told the Inquirer.

The United States has not yet returned the three big bells that were taken by American soldiers from a church in Balangiga, Samar (in central Philippines), when they massacred civilians there on September 28, 1901. It was in retaliation for the killing of American soldiers in the island.

Two of the so-called Balangiga bells were placed at the 11th US Infantry Regiment at Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming. One bell was kept at the headquarters of the 9th US Infantry Regiment in Camp Red Cloud, South Korea.

Feb 1945
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I found an old book

it is the spanish documents about Japan and philippines around 1550
there were many Japanese in Philippines and fought against Spain?



http://kindai.ndl.go.jp/
put スペイン　フィリピン　into blank

sorry it is only Japanese language and a few spanish language

http://kindai.da.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1041580/13
http://kindai.da.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1041580/16

西班牙人（spain) 比律賓（philippines)
ch3　is interesting..
Japan and pilippines planed to attack spain..

（呂宋島、フィリピン語：Luzon　island) was Japanese settlement place..wow

Pangasinan　,agoo　was first Japanese colony?
http://kindai.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/1041580/90
there might be many Japanese decendants who dont know their origin




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Paco District, 1945
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Taft Avenue / Manila Bay Area, 1945
Jai Alai Building in the left / Manila Hotel in the right side

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Manila, 1945
Phil Normal College, Sta. Isabal College and Jai Alai Building at the bottom part of the photo

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Documentary on the New Mexico-Philippines link

http://vimeo.com/13948783

The state of New Mexico had their National Guard sent to the Philippines few months before the war. Most of them, Hispanics/Latinos. Very interesting documentary

I just got pissed of so much about that Japanese guard who has no remorse about the Filipinos (and Americans but I had to emphasize of Filipinos since most of the ones who died and were killed were Filipinos) killed in the Bataan Death March yet he whines so much about Nagasaki and Hiroshima (never about Tokyo where more died int he Doolittle raid than Nagasaki and Hiroshima combined). For the innocent Asian victim, "it is just war," for Japanese they are so much "the victim".

Guilty?

On the bright side, NM is the only state (that I know of) that yearly commemorates Bataan. They also have a Bataan Museum. Bataan is close to many NM because of the 1800 NMNG sent to the Philippines, only about half came home. Also, the 200th Coast Artillery of the NMNG was the first to fire against the Japanese bombers

Would the Japanese have invaded if we had not been an American colony? They didn't invade Thailand and would much of the country been spared from much of (American) collateral damage if the country was by-passed in the so-called "liberation" as what was said to be the original plan. It was said that it was McArthur who changed the plans and insisted on "liberating" the country first. Some say this was due to his ego and of course the promise.



Nah, Thailand was a "bluff" in the WW2. In fact they were collaborators to the Japanese and declared war on the US but they're very negligible and not of strategic importance but they had to collaborate to avoid "invasion" by the Japanese. It's for their survival.

On the Philippines being neutral, I think our location makes it impossible. We're like a bridge connecting Japan to the Dutch East Indies. It's either we join them or go against them.

I think though, that had the Japanese been more humane and friendly to Filipinos, we would have believed them. But in the early months of the war, we've seen how cruel they can be -- just look at what they did at the Bataan Death March. I am not even talking about US soldiers but Filipino soldiers. When I read accounts of US soldiers who are survivors, from their statements I get the impression that the Japanese were more cruel to the Filipino soldiers than the US soldiers.

Maybe, they hated us so much since of all colonies in Asia, we were the ones who didn't believe them. :lol::lol: And they credit themselves so much for "awakening" self-determination in Asia. Personally, I don't believe that. Prior to Japan's imperialistic ambitions, the independence movement in South East Asia was growing and it's more of European inspired than Japanese inspired. Sukarno and Ho Chi Minh were educated in Europe where they formed their nationalistic ambitions.

Nah, Thailand was a "bluff" in the WW2. In fact they were collaborators to the Japanese and declared war on the US but they're very negligible and not of strategic importance but they had to collaborate to avoid "invasion" by the Japanese. It's for their survival.

On the Philippines being neutral, I think our location makes it impossible. We're like a bridge connecting Japan to the Dutch East Indies. It's either we join them or go against them.

I think though, that had the Japanese been more humane and friendly to Filipinos, we would have believed them. But in the early months of the war, we've seen how cruel they can be -- just look at what they did at the Bataan Death March. I am not even talking about US soldiers but Filipino soldiers. When I read accounts of US soldiers who are survivors, from their statements I get the impression that the Japanese were more cruel to the Filipino soldiers than the US soldiers.

Maybe, they hated us so much since of all colonies in Asia, we were the ones who didn't believe them. :lol::lol: And they credit themselves so much for "awakening" self-determination in Asia. Personally, I don't believe that. Prior to Japan's imperialistic ambitions, the independence movement in South East Asia was growing and it's more of European inspired than Japanese inspired. Sukarno and Ho Chi Minh were educated in Europe where they formed their nationalistic ambitions.

Also, that's assuming the American colonial period never happened.
It's just like back in 1899 we'd still be re-colonised even if the Yanks sailed away after Manila Bay. I don't know what would have been worse being under the Germans, the French (there were French, German and Brit ships hanging out in Manila bay then) or Japan.

Also, that's assuming the American colonial period never happened.
It's just like back in 1899 we'd still be re-colonised even if the Yanks sailed away after Manila Bay. I don't know what would have been worse being under the Germans, the French (there were French, German and Brit ships hanging out in Manila bay then) or Japan.

Likely Japan. They colonized Formosa four years earlier and that is a few miles away our territory.

Thailand which has been free of Western rule had no choice but to join Japan or face destruction, what more with the Philippines?

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/54a/056.html

This is an interesting piece

Another interesting piece

http://philippinesfreepress.com.ph/?p=36
http://philippinesfreepress.com.ph/?p=588

Another article:

http://philippinesfreepress.com.ph/?p=820

Examines that the Battle of Manila and the civilian massacre were intended contrary to popular notion; that Yamashita and Iwabuchi had contact

For example, one of General Yamashita’s claims at his war crimes trial was that he was evacuating all army troops, leaving behind only those who were moving out supplies and material.  There was claimed to be a maximum effort to remove all ammunition, food and medicine from the city.  But Professor Jose reveals that in fact the Japanese stored six months worth of supplies in the Finance Building, ready for a long siege.

Another claim by Yamashita was that he lost communication with Manila, an outlandish claim in an age of radio transmission, when even our ill-equipped guerrillas could reach Australia.  Ambassador Miguel Perez-Rubio, a guerrilla fighter imprisoned by the Kempeitai in Baguio, narrates that their rice rations were placed on paper copies of Domei News dispatches describing the Battle for Manila.

Professor Jose shows that there was a constant interchange of messages between Adm. Sanji Iwabuchi, the Butcher of Manila, and General Yokoyama of the Shimbu Group east of Manila.  General Yokoyama certainly was in constant contact with Baguio, and in fact Professor Jose has mentioned to me that there was also direct contact from Manila to Baguio.

Professor Jose also reveals that Yamashita’s chief of staff, General Muto, had instructed his fellow POWs to deny that any officers gave any orders to kill civilians.  Capt. T. Kunai quotes him: “You should never say, for the sake of Japan, for the sake of the Japanese Army, that anyone who graduated from the Imperial Military Academy had ever ordered the killing of noncombatants.”

HINDSIGHT By F. Sionil Jose
The Philippine STAR 08/21/2005

Some 30 years ago or so, I was in Kawazaki near Tokyo attending a conference sponsored by the Afro Asian Writers Union–a Moscow supported organization. During the first plenary session, an Indian communist took the floor and started lambasting the United States for dropping the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He made it appear that the Japanese were the tragic victims of World War II.

I was so infuriated, I rose from my seat and shouted, "Mr Singh, your country was never occupied by the Japanese Imperial Army! When the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I called the Americans ninnies for they did not atomize Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto–in fact, all of Japan. This nation deserved to be atom-bombed for the atrocities it committed in my country."

That weekend, all the delegates were invited to Kyoto; only my wife and I were excluded from that tour.

We mark this week the 60th anniversary of the Japanese surrender. I am not sorry at all–through this span of years–for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; I just pray though that such a holocaust will never visit any nation in the future.

Those who condemn now the atomic bombing of these two cities do so out of the context of those times, ignorant as they are of the feelings of people ravaged by the Japanese Imperial Army.

There was no moral barrier when these cities were bombed–it was total war, a response to the Japanese rape of Nanking in China, to the leveling of Coventry in England by the Nazis and their extermination of the Jews, the massacres in Ermita-Malate and elsewhere in the Philippines. No, I will never weep over Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

And if any strategic justification is needed, both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were major staging areas for the Japanese Army. The bombings forced Emperor Hirohito to end the war, thereby saving millions of both American and Japanese lives. Just remember that the Japanese were prepared to die for their homeland with every man, woman and child; their suicidal stand in Okinawa was a grim foreboding of what would have transpired if those bombs were not dropped.

I was a high school senior in 1941 when Pearl Harbor was attacked but before that attack, war clouds already hovered over Asia. Japan had occupied French Indochina, half of China and Manchuria. Close to us in the North, Formosa was already in Japanese hands. Chunks of Davao were Japanese abaca plantations that produced hemp for the Japanese navy and maritime industry. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, retired, had come to the Philippines to help set up an Army of 21 year olds and Camp O’Donnel in Capas, Tarlac, where the recruits trained–would later become the notorious prison camp for the survivors of Bataan.

Air raid, black out and evacuation drills were held in Manila. All of these, however, proved useless when war finally came.

The Japanese planes bombed first Nichols airbase near Manila, Fort Stotsenberg in Pampanga and the airbase in Iba, Zambales; MacArthur had an eight-hour advance warning of the debacle at Pearl but the US Air Force was caught on the ground.

Classes were stopped. I went home to Rosales, Pangasinan, and was there when the Japanese arrived. They came in bicycles, open trucks, and like most Filipinos at the time, I thought they would not last, that the Americans would come in a massive convoy and drive the Japanese back to their homeland. After all, through all those years, we didn’t expect them to produce those airplanes and battleships. We knew Japanese products were shoddy and easily broken. Made in Japan was inferior. We were, of course, sadly mistaken.

The miles and miles of convoys did not arrive; Bataan, then Corregidor fell.

The first weeks of occupation in my hometown were quite correct. The Japanese distributed rice, textiles, then, their true nature surfaced. They started slapping and beating up people for the slightest infractions. By the second year, supplies, particularly medicines and food, became scarce. We had to do with ersatz products, castanog (roasted coconut meat), charcoal-fed engines, talinum and camote gardens even in the islands in the streets. Towards the end of the Occupation, the poorest Filipinos wore sackcloth. Without rubber and leather, fancy wooden shoes became fashionable.

I commuted between Manila and Pangasinan, bringing rice to my relatives in Manila. The buy- and-sell business flourished, Divisoria in Manila, the center. In June of 1944, I enrolled in preparatory medicine at the University of Santo Tomas walking every morning from Antipolo Street near Blumentritt all the way to Intramuros. The streetcars still ran but they were extremely crowded. The rich had dokars–fancy calesas drawn by retired racehorses. Only the Japanese and their powerful puppets had cars.

One morning, while we were having Nippongo lessons, suddenly the anti-aircraft guns atop San Juan de Letran College nearby started popping, then gray, stubby planes with a white star and bars roared over Intramuros. Some flew so low, their canopies open, we could see the pilots waving. Americans! The whole class started jumping, shouting, shrieking. Our instructor–a young Japanese officer with his sword on his side always–slinked away. Classes were permanently stopped. And that afternoon, at around 2, the second wave came, so many planes, they darkened the sky. Anti- aircraft guns spat at them, their black puffs dotting the sky, but not a single plane was shot down. When they came again the following day, the anti- aircraft guns were silent.

By this time, there was already very little food in the city. Even gutter rats were trapped and eaten. We stayed on for another month, then in early November, my mother, a cousin and I left Manila with a small bag of rice, a cooking pot, and some dried fish. We walked all the way to Pangasinan for seven days.

The highway was deserted in the daytime but for people like us fleeing the starving city. American planes from Leyte ranged the plains, the highways, blasting bridges and trucks–we came across one burning in Angeles, the dead Japanese in it. At night, we slept under empty houses along the highway–their inhabitants had fled to the interior. And at night we could hear the Japanese marching, retreating.

In early January 1945, the Americans finally returned to Luzon. From that distance in Rosales we could hear the big guns off Lingayen as battleships pounded the beaches for the landing. That was a terrible waste for the Japanese had all left.

When the Americans got to Rosales, at the first opportunity I joined a medical unit of the Combat Engineers. I had one ambition–to go to Japan with the invasion, and once there, first chance I got, I woull kill as many Japanese as I can.

That was 60 years ago and thinking back, this is how I truly felt and, I am sure, so did many others, particularly those who lost their loved ones to Japanese villainy. It embarrasses me to recall this objective–a result of my witnessing what they did and in a way, what they did to me which certainly is nothing compared to those who survived Fort Santiago, and the torture sessions with their kempei-tai.

Collateral damage–some blame the Americans for the destruction of Ermita-Malate and Intramuros and the death of thousands there. But the Japanese were there, raping, burning, killing. If they were not killed, what would have happened? Was there ever a less violent alternative?

We can get sentimental and nostalgic over history in mind and we must restore Intramuros as a reminder of our past and as a tourist attraction. But we must also never forget that Intramuros was the seat of a colonial power that shackled us for three centuries, just as Ermita-Malate–and the beautiful antiseptic Makati today–was the seat of domestic imperialism which keeps us poor.

Many aspects of that three-year Occupation need to be studied more for they reveal so much of the Filipino character, of the myriad reasons why this society has evolved into what it is now, almost rudderless, without any lasting memory and therefore, without a sense of nation–this, in spite of the heroic sacrifice of many Filipinos. After all, while much of the region succumbed easily to Japanese blandishments and power, we Filipinos fought them tenaciously, valiantly.

But in the guerrilla war, for instance, all too often the guerrillas were not fighting the Japanese alone–they were also fighting each other over turf, over leaderships. Perhaps as many Filipinos were killed by the guerrillas as by the Japanese.

It is the height of irony that the best organized, and the most courageous guerrilla group that fought the Japanese–the Hukbalahap–was demonized almost immediately after World War II, to preserve the hold of the landlords and their American allies on government.

The Occupation showed how the peasant in such adversity could survive and thrive and as the Huks had abundantly shown; the peasants could also fight and win. If at all, the Occupation strengthened the grassroots movement, infused iron into the peasant’s backbone and his liberation could, perhaps, be this blighted nation’s hope as well.

Developments such as these cannot be quantified–they can only be perceived.

For a brief period during the Occupation, Filipinos also got to know a bit more about Japanese culture, what an accomplished people they are and, most of all, how they modernized their country in just one generation by adopting Western technology but never abandoning their Japaneseness.

And finally, the issue of collaboration, not just with the Japanese but with all the colonizers who ravaged this nation.

In looking at this issue, perhaps it is also time that we attended to one man whose unique position in our history is clouded by controversy and misinterpretation.

I am now very clear in my understanding of Artemio Ricarte, the Ilokano general who was one of the leaders of our 1896 revolution. He had refused to pledge allegiance to the United States after the defeat of the rag-tag revolutionary army. Steadfast in his refusal to accept American rule, he eventually fled into exile in Japan from 1911 until his return to the Philippines with the Japanese in 1941.

He was not given a high position by his Japanese friends. He was too old then–late ’70s–but he served them particularly in their pacification campaign.

When the Japanese retreated from Baguio deep into the Cordilleras in 1945, Ricarte went with them. Without his knowing it, the Japanese executed some 20 of his relatives because the Japanese feared that these relatives knew too much. His own grandson, Besulmino, would have been executed, too, had he not understood what the Japanese were saying and pleaded with them to spare his life.

Ricarte had no choice but to join the Japanese. He was afraid of the guerrillas who were by then better armed with the continuous arrival of aid from the Americans.

In Funduang, in Ifugao, he was afflicted with dysentery. With very little to eat, he fell ill and died. I was able to interview one of the Japanese civilians who was with him to the very end. His aide wrote a book about Ricarte titled Even the Devil Will Weep–for that, indeed, was the tragedy of this Filipino revolutionary and patriot whose undoing was his stubbornness, and his dependence on a foreign power.

Ricarte teaches us one very important lesson–a nationalist revolution must never, never seek outside assistance, in ideology as well as in resources. It must triumph with its native genius and sinews.

The political ramifications of collaboration with the Japanese extended into the political life and destiny of the nation. Those who collaborated with the Japanese. Claro M. Recto, for instance, was instrumental in developing a post-war inward- looking nationalism that was virulently anti-American, much to our disadvantage. We had a foot in the door to the vast United States market–a market which was exploited by Korea, Japan, Taiwan. We didn’t exploit it. Imprisoned by the Americans in Iwahig for his collaboration with the Japanese, he vowed never to let the Americans forget what they did, claiming that Roxas collaborated more than him.

At the very least, those who collaborated with the Japanese were granted amnesty by Roxas. But those who collaborated with Marcos, who helped him plunder this nation, are now openly in power without an amnesty from the Filipino people.

What else should we remember of the Occupation? It exacerbated our moral decline. During that period, all rules were thrown out and it was each man for himself. So much of this attitude remains even after the invader had left.

Our elites had collaborated with whoever ruled–the Spaniards, the Japanese, the Americans, and Marcos. As a political issue, collaboration with the Japanese died when Jose Laurel, the Japanese puppet president, got elected to the Senate. But as a moral issue, collaboration still rankles, and because we have not collectively denounced and punished those collaborators, does this mean then that we are not a moral people?

There is such a huge gap between being 18 and being 80. Today, I now have several Japanese friends and I value their friendships. We do not talk about World War II, about Hiroshima–they know how I feel. But while we do not talk, this does not mean that we will forget. Many Japanese feel guilty over their country’s past, many do not approve of Prime Minister Koizumi’s visits to Yasakuni shrine which honors their war dead, including some war criminals. This issue has no consensus in Japan although it is evident that the swing towards rationalizing and justifying that war is gaining ground.

Life must go on and our future, which is bleak indeed, demands our intelligent attention, our hindsight.

In 1905, Japan defeated Russia and emerged from that war a Pacific power with vaulting nationalist confidence to embark on an expansion into Korea, Manchuria, China, then the Greater Co-Prosperity Sphere.

A hundred years later, today, 2005 we see the emergence of China rivaling not just Japan but America.

In 1955, the American scholar Theodore Friend wrote a book, Between Two Empires–that is us–the Philippines–caught between America and Japan. In that book, he concluded: "Could the Philippines accomplish the work of economic diversification and social and cultural unification necessary to make a national community out of an ex-colony? How long would the Philippines remain in confusion between two civilizations, inherent and emergent, as well as in peril between two empires, Chinese and American?"

In our relations with China, we must not forget that we have a small but powerful Chinese minority which controls 80 percent of the economy, who are in manufacturing, trade, banking, media, shipping–you name it.

These taipans came to the Philippines very poor as all immigrants from China were. Through their industry, cunning and exploitation of elite politics, they built profitable conglomerates, then remit billions made in this country to China, billions that should have stayed here to build industries so our women don’t have to go abroad as housemaids and prostitutes.

There is an old Asian saying that when elephants quarrel, the grass gets trampled. A corollary to that is, when the elephants make peace, the grass gets eaten.

But this, perhaps, is the subject for another conference.
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This was presented by the author at the conference on World War II August 16-17 sponsored by The National Historical Institute at UST.

http://fsioniljose.blogspot.com/2005/08/hiroshima-and-us.html

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This is a small booklet that was prepared by the Historical Service Board of the American Historical Association. This is an interesting read. Although it is out of date here 66 years later it indicates the thoughts of Americans on the Philippines just after the WWII.


It is an interesting read. I think he's got the entire booklet up on his acct.

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Post war Manila, Philippines; desolate Filipinos among the ruins... Chinese characters mean “Long live the Japanese Imperial Army” (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johntewell/5350787521/) by John T Pilot (http://www.flickr.com/people/johntewell/), on Flickr

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Nah, Thailand was a "bluff" in the WW2. In fact they were collaborators to the Japanese and declared war on the US but they're very negligible and not of strategic importance but they had to collaborate to avoid "invasion" by the Japanese. It's for their survival.

On the Philippines being neutral, I think our location makes it impossible. We're like a bridge connecting Japan to the Dutch East Indies. It's either we join them or go against them.

I think though, that had the Japanese been more humane and friendly to Filipinos, we would have believed them. But in the early months of the war, we've seen how cruel they can be -- just look at what they did at the Bataan Death March. I am not even talking about US soldiers but Filipino soldiers. When I read accounts of US soldiers who are survivors, from their statements I get the impression that the Japanese were more cruel to the Filipino soldiers than the US soldiers.

Maybe, they hated us so much since of all colonies in Asia, we were the ones who didn't believe them. :lol::lol: And they credit themselves so much for "awakening" self-determination in Asia. Personally, I don't believe that. Prior to Japan's imperialistic ambitions, the independence movement in South East Asia was growing and it's more of European inspired than Japanese inspired. Sukarno and Ho Chi Minh were educated in Europe where they formed their nationalistic ambitions.

From what i've read though was that the Koreans who were conscripted by the Japanese were more cruel then than the Japanese kempetai...

The Liberation of Manila by the Allies (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgealp_the-liberation-of-manila-by-the-allies-in-1945_tech)

February 03, 1945

exactly 67 years ago

guys didnt u kno..well before ww2 1941,in 1898..america,philippines new..Germany/Japan had ambitions in southeast asia. ? 50 yrs later it happened..i dunno if this is true, just read..
http://nthposition.com/thethreestoogesin.php

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When Admiral George Dewey arrived in Hong Kong in 1898, Aguinaldo and several of his compatriots were on their way to Europe taking the several hundred thousand dollars given them by the Spanish as part of the truce negotiated several years earlier. The Filipino exile now saw a chance to use American support in an effort to obtain power in the Islands.

Aguinaldo would readily have given the United States the Filipino coaling stations and other goodies it sought. Aware of both German and Japanese ambitions for the Islands, Aguinaldo sought "independence" in the form of US-led multilateral protection of the Philippines against those two nations.

:mad2::cry:...China is Scary! did the japanese do the same? warnings?

guys didnt u kno..well before ww2 1941,in 1898..america,philippines new..Germany/Japan had ambitions in southeast asia. ? 50 yrs later it happened..i dunno if this is true, just read..
http://nthposition.com/thethreestoogesin.php

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When Admiral George Dewey arrived in Hong Kong in 1898, Aguinaldo and several of his compatriots were on their way to Europe taking the several hundred thousand dollars given them by the Spanish as part of the truce negotiated several years earlier. The Filipino exile now saw a chance to use American support in an effort to obtain power in the Islands.

Aguinaldo would readily have given the United States the Filipino coaling stations and other goodies it sought. Aware of both German and Japanese ambitions for the Islands, Aguinaldo sought "independence" in the form of US-led multilateral protection of the Philippines against those two nations.

:mad2::cry:...China is Scary! did the japanese do the same? warnings?

From what I read, Japanese' interest in the Philippines dates back to the Spanish times, around 1590ish with it's arrogant ruler sending demands to then Gov. Gen. Dasmarinas.
With China, there's no question. The walls of Intramuros were built to defend Manila from them. If they have been sending signals, we would be damn dense not to get the message by now.

Don't be afraid. Be vigilant :) You have been through CAT in high school like the rest of us right? *gulp* *tries to remember how to assemble and disassemble an m16*:gunz: :doh:

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La Salle University and Rizal Memorial Sports Stadium in the distance with Taft Avenue on the left looking south east. Manila, Philippines, Feb. 15, 1945 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johntewell/6651874467/) by John T Pilot (http://www.flickr.com/people/johntewell/), on Flickr

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Santo Tomas University, Manila, Philippines, post war 1945-1946 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johntewell/6664875991/) by John T Pilot (http://www.flickr.com/people/johntewell/), on Flickr

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Quezon Institute, 80th General Hospital area, located about 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Manila, Philippines, June 1, 1945 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johntewell/6651872613/) by John T Pilot (http://www.flickr.com/people/johntewell/), on Flickr

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Modern Manila from an elevation of 3,000 feet (914.4 meters), National Geographic Magazine, Sept. 1930 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johntewell/6529448831/) by John T Pilot (http://www.flickr.com/people/johntewell/), on Flickr

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American troops on ramparts at Fort San Antonio de Abad in, Malate, Manila, 1899 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johntewell/6458175595/) by John T Pilot (http://www.flickr.com/people/johntewell/), on Flickr

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Saint Anne Church. American soldiers behind a stone wall with lookouts on the roof of the church. Taguig (Metro Manila), Philippines, Nov. 1899 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johntewell/6470300553/) by John T Pilot (http://www.flickr.com/people/johntewell/), on Flickr

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Puerta del Parian Gate, Intramuros, Manila, Philippines, 1899 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johntewell/6434697961/) by John T Pilot (http://www.flickr.com/people/johntewell/), on Flickr

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Puerta del Parian Gate, Intramuros, Manila, Philippines, 1899 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johntewell/6434697961/) by John T Pilot (http://www.flickr.com/people/johntewell/), on Flickr

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Dean C. Worcester and Don Pedro Sanz in carriage, Manila, Philippines, 1899 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johntewell/6259809806/) by John T Pilot (http://www.flickr.com/people/johntewell/), on Flickr

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A rescue on Taft Avenue near the Philippine General hospital, c1910-1915 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johntewell/6259970714/) by John T Pilot (http://www.flickr.com/people/johntewell/), on Flickr

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1945 War torn Manila, Philippines burning (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johntewell/3352147805/) by John T Pilot (http://www.flickr.com/people/johntewell/), on Flickr

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Burning Manila Feburary 27, 1945 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johntewell/3574654337/) by John T Pilot (http://www.flickr.com/people/johntewell/), on Flickr

PGH 1945: Days of terror, nights of fear


...Heavy fire peppered the building with bullets without letup. There was a crash of exploding shells against concrete and the sound of ricocheting shrapnel and bullets. We were crouched under the elevator, but showers of sparks from exploding shells and shrapnel so terrified us that prayers asking God to save us filled the basement....

nice read :okay:http://globalnation.inquirer.net/26127/pgh-1945-days-of-terror-nights-of-fear

Wau!!
nice information posted by you guys related to heritage of Manila.
If anybody wants to book hotel flights there ask me frequently any time will help you.
Thanks

These are the memories of Margaret Wilson (nee Braiden), who we met at a 1940's big band weekend. Katie and Melvin recently sent photographs and brief autobiographies to the Rosie the Riveter Memorial project from their home in Moore, Oklahoma. Katie wrote the following account of their cross-country trip and her work in the shipyards.

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The Historical Tacloban Airfield now Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport:
http://www.pacificwrecks.com/airfields/philippines/tacloban/1944/lst-tacloban.jpg
^^USAAF Date: November 1944
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^^USAAF Date: November 1944
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http://www.pacificwrecks.com/airfields/philippines/tacloban/1944/tacloban-aerial2.jpg
^^Aerial view of Tacloban Airfield view southward USAAF Date: 1944
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^^General MacArthur awards Major Richard Bong the Medal of Honor at Tacloban Airfield USAAF Date: December 12, 1944
http://www.pacificwrecks.com/airfields/philippines/tacloban/1945/tacloban-view-south.jpg
^^Aerial view of Tacloban Airfield southward USN Date: 1945
http://www.pacificwrecks.com/airfields/philippines/tacloban/2005/tacloban-airport-tower-sign.jpg
^^It is still in use today as Tacloban / Leyte's main airport, also know as Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport.

Location
Located to the east of Tacloban on Cataisan Point along San Pedro Bay on northern Leyte. Known to the Japanese as "Tacroban".

Construction
Built by the Americans after the landing on Leyte in October 20, 1944. A single runway was built running north to south running parallel to the coast and San Pedro Bay.

Beginning on October 27, US Army Air Force units that moved to Tacloban assumed control of direct air support missions over Leyte from the US Navy, which withdrew on October 29. Designated US Army APO 72 (Tacloban).
Source:http://www.pacificwrecks.com/nav/15/pacific_wrecks.jpg

^^
Wow.

photos and captions by: John Tewell (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johntewell/)

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Insular Life & Chaco Building, War Damaged Manila, Philippines, 2 1945

The Chaco Building is at the center with the Insular Life Assurance Build on the left. This is at the north end of the Jones Bridge. The advertisement signs on the building to the right are for Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer, Safe for Baby-Good for You but can’t see the bottom, And an older sign the is partially obscured by the other signs is a word that starts with SP and ends with RYS.


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Escolta district of Manila, Philippines, 1945

This is a view of the Escolta, or main shopping street, the location of fine shops and theatres in Manila, Philippines. The Japanese destroyed Jones Bridge in the foreground has been bridged by U.S. engineers using a Bailey type of span. Plaza Cervantes is on the left and Plaza Goite on the right. The industrial section of Manila, which was not completely wrecked, is shown in the left background. In the far left background is the railroad station.


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Binondo Church, War damaged Manila, Philippines, February 1945

At the center is the burnt out Binondo Church. Above it across the Pasig River is the Philippine Post Office Building. Manila City Hall is in the top right corner. Below Binondo Church are the ruins of the Hotel de Oriente and La Insular Tobacco and Cigar Factory.

oh.. thanks for sharing that info.

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Pasig River looking southeast across Intramuros, Manila, Philippines, Feb. 1945 .jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johntewell/8011269859/) by John T Pilot (http://www.flickr.com/people/johntewell/), on Flickr

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Manila 1945 2 - Version 7 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/toospecial/8061801633/) by carolynfriedman (http://www.flickr.com/people/toospecial/), on Flickr

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Manila 1945 2 - Version 4 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/toospecial/8061804178/) by carolynfriedman (http://www.flickr.com/people/toospecial/), on Flickr

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Manila 1945 2 - Version 3 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/toospecial/8061801225/) by carolynfriedman (http://www.flickr.com/people/toospecial/), on Flickr

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Manila 1945 3 - Version 4 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/toospecial/8061804656/) by carolynfriedman (http://www.flickr.com/people/toospecial/), on Flickr

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Manila 1945 1 - Version 3 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/toospecial/8061803614/) by carolynfriedman (http://www.flickr.com/people/toospecial/), on Flickr

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Manilia 1945 - Version 3 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/toospecial/8061800339/) by carolynfriedman (http://www.flickr.com/people/toospecial/), on Flickr

^^ more on his photostream. :)

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why china is still an ongoing threat in south east asia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangley_Rebellion
The Sangley rebellion was a Sangley Chinese rebellion which took place in Manila, Philippines, in October 1603.

http://sambali.blogspot.com/2005/11/glossary-lues.html
According to the Ming annals, the kingdom of Lusung was considered important enough for emperor Yung Lo, in the second year of his reign, to send the famed admiral Zheng Ho to attack Lusung and neighboring regions. The Chinese fleet made three attempts to subjugate Luzon prior to the arrival of the first Europeans on the scene about a century later.

keep watch..

Here is an interesting piece I found regarding the Japanese immigrants in the Philippines during the American period...

This would be an interesting study. Looks like Japan has been preparing to seize the Philippines as the Philippines was preparing for full transition to independence.

http://www.worldculturepictorial.com/images/content_2/1927-1932-1940.jpg

President Quezon's gardener was an officer. I remember reading some posts in the past about how their gardeners turned out to be Japanese officer. Could this be the reason behind the US paranoia regarding the Japanese in the US? (Talking about the internment. Not saying it was right but could this discovery in the Philippines following the attack led to the paranoia? )

Source: http://www.worldculturepictorial.com/blog/content/great-raid-movie-true-story-never-told-wwii-us-pow-japan

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^^^^ Thanks for posting this, wein--this is the first time I see this image in higher reso. Can anyone identify: 1) what is burning in that big fire between San Beda and San Sebastian church? and 2) from what location would this photo have been taken? (is that banana or abaca being cultivated in the foreground?)

^^ vantage point could be somewhere in sampaloc-sta cruz boundary, considering the angle of the towers/spire of San Sebastian Church

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The bldg on left is hasmin/pup bldg near nagtahan fly-over.... the burning establishment in the old photo maybe on legarda/mendiola area.
The arrow points on where the san sebastian church is. unfortunately in this photo, it was covered by the bldg.. tomorrow, i'll take another photo this time on a higher roofdeck

latest photo is not mine... the photographer's location: domingo santiago, sampaloc

thanks, ibp592! what a huge difference then and now

Those are mostly banana plants mixed in with some other trees.

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trivia: according to a reliable source... a vast section of altura santa mesa specifically manga ave. near santol are banana plantations before... until now, they still call that place banana republic

speaking of banana.. there's one banana tree remain on the present day photo... hahaha!

On the bright side, NM is the only state (that I know of) that yearly commemorates Bataan. They also have a Bataan Museum. Bataan is close to many NM because of the 1800 NMNG sent to the Philippines, only about half came home. Also, the 200th Coast Artillery of the NMNG was the first to fire against the Japanese bombers
They also celebrate Bataan Death March. Yearly yata may run sila to commemorate the march.

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Bomb Falling Toward Manila 1945

This 2,000-pound American Bomb falls toward Japanese shore installations in Manila Harbor.

The island in the middle of the Pasig River is Isla De Convalescencia where the Hospicio de San Jose is located near the Ayala Bridge.

This is an AUTHENTIC PHOTO AT HINDI ITO PHOTOSHOPPED OK???

PROBABLY TAKEN BY AN AMERICAN BOMBARDIER ON A B-29 BOMBER FOR RECORD/DOCUMENTARY PURPOSES.

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Philippine National Post Office, Manila, Philippines, Aug. 24, 1946 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johntewell/8425264891/) by John T Pilot (http://www.flickr.com/people/johntewell/), on Flickr

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Devastation of Intramuros, Manila, Philippines, Feb. 1945 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johntewell/8440179172/) by John T Pilot (http://www.flickr.com/people/johntewell/), on Flickr

Parang mga acropolis lang yung mga old buildings na nasira...

Sana ganyan minodel yung mga government buildings ngayon. Feeling Greco-Roman lang :lol:

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Philippine National Post Office, Manila, Philippines, Aug. 24, 1946 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johntewell/8425264891/) by John T Pilot (http://www.flickr.com/people/johntewell/), on Flickr

hey...I just noticed that in accordance to Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere's ideology of ousting anything non-Asian from the occupied territories, that they had replaced the original engraved letters above the colonnade from English to Tagalog.

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trivia: according to a reliable source... a vast section of altura santa mesa specifically manga ave. near santol are banana plantations before... until now, they still call that place banana republic

speaking of banana.. there's one banana tree remain on the present day photo... hahaha!

shortcut to papuntang p.u.p mnl, cguro the peron that took this is hanging out in iglesia ni kristo church
anyway, yung mga ibang bahay dun sa old banana plantation are still there from the old pics. ginawang motel nga yung iba e

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ganda, lalo na ung bilibid:)

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Wow! great photos you got there! I didn't know Pasig River used to look like the floating market from Thailand. Interesting. Thanks for sharing this!

^^ walang aftermath? reminds me of Hiroshima atom bomb...

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Ang ganda pala ng Manila Bilibid Prison! Ganyan pa rin ba ngayon yan? I can recognize still existing buildings like the FEU, Quiapo Church and Metropolitan Theater. Nice old photo!

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Fruit market near the Manila Post Office.

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Philippine National Post Office, Manila, Philippines, Aug. 24, 1946 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/johntewell/8425264891/) by John T Pilot (http://www.flickr.com/people/johntewell/), on Flickr

In the lower right hand corner of this picture is a converted Willys Jeep. So now we have a photogprahic record of one of the first jeepneys. Note that there is no rear entrance. Conventional thought was still the order of the day. The owner opted for the traditional bus configuration with the door in front, next to the driver.

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Life Magazine photo: vicinity of Quiapo, Battle of Manila, February, 1945.

Source (http://mlq3.tumblr.com/post/44525293547/life-magazine-photo-vicinity-of-quiapo-battle-of#_=_)

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Fruit market near the Manila Post Office.

Nanangkupo! World War II -era pa pala yang gulong na kahoy ng kariton. Andami pa niyan sa palengke! Kumusta naman ang progreso ng Pinoy???

in Celebration of Araw ng Kagitingan 2013 ... Mabuhay ang mga Veterano!

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^^Saang lugar yan sa Manila? May mga buildings na oh!

That's the Pambansang Museo in the left foreground.

I think this hasn't been posted yet. A colored video of Manila after the liberation

http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675062346_Allied-troops_aerial-view_smoke-rising-from-bombardment_view-of-buildings

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Attached is a newsletter that contains my Peter Parson's article regarding the Battle of Manila and Gen. Yamashita's responsibility. There are so many notes from younger Filipinos blaming the complete destruction of Manila on the Americans which really gets me. I was born just a generation after the war. My parents and many relatives survived the war and passed down first hand knowledge of their experiences. Yes, they were partially to blame but it was necessary to fight house to house to rid the Jap military like you would any infestation. I hope this information is read by the younger generation so they might know the truth.


[URL="http://bacepow.net/5-13Newsl.pdf"]

Attached is a newsletter that contains my Peter Parson's article regarding the Battle of Manila and Gen. Yamashita's responsibility. There are so many notes from younger Filipinos blaming the complete destruction of Manila on the Americans which really gets me. I was born just a generation after the war. My parents and many relatives survived the war and passed down first hand knowledge of their experiences. Yes, they were partially to blame but it was necessary to fight house to house to rid the Jap military like you would any infestation. I hope this information is read by the younger generation so they might know the truth.


[URL="http://bacepow.net/5-13Newsl.pdf"]

From what I've read (Parsons, Nakpil et al) it was 50/50. The US had to bombard the Japanese to flush them out. The Japs practised scorched earth tactics. Very sad story really.

^^ One would think what would have handed if the US threaded more slowly and without artillery... sometimes, I think it would have given the Japanese more time to massacre people. I'm not excusing the massive US bombardment...but just think of it..according to Prof Ricardo Jose, the Japanese stacked six months of food which means they expected to siege the city in 6 months. Also, there was no food and safe water in Manila during the battle.

I think the events in Manila (as well as Okinawa where the Japanese military ordered the civilians to kill themselves) was a big factor in deciding to drop the bomb.

And I don't buy much that Yamashita planned to withdraw esp given the fortification of Manila which started on December and Yamashita was still there.