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In 2015, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed Japanese ODA loan agreements with the Government of the Republic of the Philippines under the second Aquino administration to provide loans of up to a total of ¥33.689 billion for Metro Manila Priority Bridges Seismic Improvement Project and Davao City Bypass Construction Project (South and Center Sections).
The Japanese transports arrived at Davao by midnight, and landing commenced from 0400 hours, with the Miura Detachment landing to the north, and the Sakaguchi Detachment landing to the southwest of the city. The only opposition was a single machine gun squad, which attacked the Miura Detachment before it was destroyed by a direct hit by a shell ...
The Ilagan Japanese Tunnel is a war tunnel that was part of a military base built by the Japanese government as headquarters for its soldiers during World War II. [2] It is found in barangay Santo Tomas in Ilagan, Isabela. It is one of the few remaining tunnels in the province.
Japan's assistance is applied only up to Carmen, Davao del Norte at the south, thus covering only about 2,100 kilometers (1,300 mi) or about 62% of the highway's entire length. [10] In 1998, the Department of Tourism designated 35 sections of the highway as " Scenic Highways ", with developed amenities for travelers and tourists.
Ateneo de Davao University – Matina campus: The campus is situated on site of a wartime-era Japanese airfield. Believing students, faculty, staff, and security personnel claim of ghosts of Japanese soldiers and of deceased students haunting the campus.
the second-longest road tunnel in Japan (~10.7 km) Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line bridge-tunnel: 18 December 1997: Kawasaki, Kanagawa: Kisarazu, Chiba: the third-longest road tunnel in Japan Enasan Tunnel - Chūō Expressway: 1985: Nagano: Nakatsugawa City, Gifu: the fourth-longest road tunnel in Japan (~8.6 km) Ikuta Tunnel - Musashino Line: 1976: Ikuta ...
General Tomoyuki Yamashita Prince Yasuhito Chichibu. Yamashita's gold, also referred to as the Yamashita treasure, is the name given to the alleged war loot stolen in Southeast Asia by Imperial Japanese forces during World War II and supposedly hidden in caves, tunnels, or underground complexes in different cities in the Philippines.
Davao was among the first cities in the Philippines to be occupied by Japanese troops in 1942. There were organized guerrilla resistance in Mindanao afterwards, the most prominent one commanded by Wendell W. Fertig, and were largely successful in tying down Japanese units in the island long before the liberation of Philippines began in 1944.