Wherever the Japanese conquered, they looted. Some say the amassed treasure was the greatest ever collected in human history, consisting of gemstones, platinum, gold - at least 6000 metric tons of gold- At today's values, they estimate the treasureto have been worth over US$100 billion.
After over ten years of quiet, dogged searching, a small syndicate of treasure hunters claims to have found several sites. This is a story beyond the realms of fiction. It is Indiana Jones in reality involving the ultra-right-wing billionaire Japanese criminal Yakuza master-mind, Yoshio Kodama, as well as General Tomyuki Yamashita, and the complicity of the Japanese Imperial family.