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The Kiangan National Shrine (Filipino: Bantayog sa Kiangan) also known as the Yamashita Shrine [1] is a war memorial in Kiangan, Ifugao, Philippines.It commemorates the surrender of the top commander of Japanese Imperial Army in the Philippines General Tomoyuki Yamashita to the Allied forces, which led to the end of the Japanese occupation of the archipelago during World War II.
Tomoyuki Yamashita (山下 奉文, Yamashita Tomoyuki, 8 November 1885 – 23 February 1946; also called Tomobumi Yamashita [2]) was a Japanese convicted war criminal and general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Yamashita led Japanese forces during the invasion of Malaya and Battle of Singapore.
The island is an elevated coralline island with a length of approximately 20 kilometres (12 mi) and width of 7 kilometres (4.3 mi), with Mount Ōyama at 246 metres (807 ft) above sea level at its highest peak. [2] In the eastern part of the island is an extensive limestone cave system, one of the largest in Asia. [3]
Haruka Yamashita (Japanese: 山下 晴加, Hepburn: Yamashita Haruka, born 28 November 1995) is a Japanese model and beauty pageant titleholder who won the Miss World Japan 2017 and represented Japan at Miss World 2017. She also went to Thailand to shoot a television series Oh My Boss where she played a Japanese top idol in a few episodes. [1 ...
Itsukushima Shrine (厳島神社, Itsukushima-jinja) is a Shinto shrine on the island of Itsukushima (popularly known as Miyajima), best known for its "floating" torii. [1] It is in the city of Hatsukaichi , in Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan , accessible from the mainland by ferry at Miyajimaguchi Station .
Nanami Yamashita (山下 七海, Yamashita Nanami, born July 19, 1995) is a Japanese voice actress from Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. She was a member of Wake Up, Girls! . Biography
On a small island off Japan’s northeastern coast, visitors make offerings at a shrine for unlikely local guardians: cats. The “Neko Jinja,” or Cat Shrine, mythologizes cats as guardian ...
Tamaki Teijou (悌上 たまき, Teijou Tamaki) / Black Princess. Haruka's shy and gentle best friend. Tamaki has black hair in a bob. She evacuated to Hinomori city as a young orphan, and met Fusanosuke, an Earth Wolf, in the process. Her peony mark is on her lower abdomen. The virtue she represents (and the name of her Moon Cat counterpart ...