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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.
Kiangan Shrine Located in Kiangan is the Kiangan Central School old home economics building, which marks the spot where the highest Commander of the Japanese Imperial Army, General Tomoyuki Yamashita (also known as the Tiger of Malaya ), surrendered to the Filipino & American Forces on 2 September 1945.
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.
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 ...
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
Itsukushima jinja was the chief Shinto shrine of Aki Province. [4] This shrine is one of the "Three Great Shrines of Aki Province", along with Take Shrine and Hayatani Shrine. [5] The first torii on the site is said to have been erected in 593, supposedly by Saeki Kuramoto during the reign of Empress Suiko (592–628 CE). [2]
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 ...
Master Takahashi's Adventure Island IV (高橋名人の冒険島IV, "Takahashi Meijin no Bōken Jima IV") (Adventure Island IV for short) is a 1994 platform game released by Hudson Soft for the Family Computer; it was the final game released for the console in Japan. The game was never released outside of Japan.