Philippine-Japan Friendship Shrine
  Note: The image of Hiroo Onoda is from the cover of
"ONODA Sentimental Journey of Lt. Hiroo Onoda"

PHILIPPINE-JAPAN FRIENSHIP SHRINE


  Entrance gate to the path leading to the Shrine


 

I had to have two tries to reach the Shrine as the paths leading to it were rather overgrown.

Finally a local rice farmer showed us the way.

The last of of Lt. Hiroo Onada's men, Private Kinshichi Kozuka, who died in a confrontation with the police in 1972, may have been buried somewhere near the shrine - perhaps the shrine is on top of the original grave.

With luck a reader of this page may be able to clarify this point.

THe Shrine is about a ten minute walk from the main road to Looc.


 

Everlasting Peace
The text on the Philippine-Japan Friendship Shrine plaque

 
Plaque on the Philippine-Japan Frienship Shrine
Illustrating the overgrown condition of parts of the path leading to the Friendship Shrine
View of the Philippine-Japan Friendship Shrine from the fields below
Fields below the Philippine-Japan Friendship Shrine
View of Tilik Harbour from near the Philippine-Japan Friendship Shrine
Quarry to the left of the path to the Shrine
A farmer winnowing rice on the road below the shrine

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