The establishment of the Yotsuya Fund was used to control and manipulate the Japanese underworld, and it was a fund for dirty work, extortion, kidnapping, and assassination. General Willoughby and the head of the G-2, the intelligence unit of the Allied High Command, controlled the Yotsuya Foundation and worked with Kodama's "Yakuza" men to suppress left-wing movements or mass demonstrations during the American occupation.

The Keenan Fund was founded by a man named Joseph. B. Keenan is controlled by civilian personnel. He was the chief prosecutor in the Tokyo war crimes trial and another close friend of MacArthur. The mandates of the M Fund and the Yotsuya Fund are broad, while the Keenan Fund has a more singular and specific mandate.

It is used to bribe witnesses in a war criminal trial or to bribe an intermediary to persuade the witness to give false testimony. Information found at the MacArthur Memorial in Norfolk, Virginia, shows that MacArthur, Bonner, and Ferrers colluded with former Presidents Herbert and Hoover to ensure that Hirohito would not be punished in any way; General Tojo will give perjury and assume all responsibility for the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The Eight-Nation Coalition looted only part of the wealth of the Chinese royal family, and did little to move on the wealth of the people. But Japan is different, from the imperial palace to the people, and even all kinds of underworld organizations that exist in China and control a lot of wealth, almost all of them have been looted by Japan. Therefore, the enormity of this wealth is completely conceivable.

The same is true of other Southeast Asian countries, such as Korea, an overseas colony of Japan, which as the ruler looted the wealth of Korea in various legal names. The celadon produced in Korea is famous all over the world, but after the Japanese invaded Korea, they were still not satisfied after robbing the celadon collected by the Korean court and the private sector.

During his tenure as Joseon governor, the Japanese excavated more than 2,000 ancient Korean tombs, including the Joseon royal tombs in Kaesong, plundering all the treasures in the corridors, including celadons, Buddha statues, crowns, necklaces, earrings, bronze mirrors, and other ornaments.

In the name of scientific research, Japan has also transported tens of thousands of Korean cultural relics and ancient books to Japan, which are all national treasures of the DPRK. Korean temples were not spared, elaborate Buddha statues and bronze bells were shipped to Japan, and all metal religious artifacts were looted and used to cast weapons.

In the name of studying China, large Japanese companies such as Manchurian Railway, Mitsui, and Mitsubishi dispatched a large number of intelligence personnel to investigate the resources of various parts of China under the guise of "academics."

The Manchurian Railway has set up branches in Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and other places, and they have clearly detected the industrial and agricultural products and the wealth of the government and the people in various parts of China. These so-called "scholars" later became the executors of the Golden Lily Plan, advancing with the iron hooves of the Japanese army.

The day after the Kwantung Army launched the September 18 Incident, it occupied the Shenyang Bank Building, the Frontier Bank, and the vaults of the Bank of the Three Eastern Provinces. After occupying the three eastern provinces, the Japanese gendarmerie ransacked all the provincial banks and local branches, and appropriated large sums of gold and currency for themselves.

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, it took five months to sweep through Southeast Asia, and after the occupation of Singapore, Yifu Palace established the regional headquarters of the Golden Lily Project in Singapore, and Bukuala Lumpur and Penang were used as transit wars for looting stolen goods.

At the Bank Malaysia Bank vault in Kuala Lumpur, the Japanese grabbed a number of gold bricks, each weighing 6.25 kilograms. They also snatched a large number of gold bricks from Malay chiefs and overseas Chinese in various provinces of Malaysia.

Many wealthy believers in Southeast Asia cast their Buddha statues in gold, and they put plaster on the outside of the Buddha statues to prevent theft. The Japanese army knocked down a large number of Buddha statues, and the golden Buddha statues they took away were as many as 8 tons in Myanmar alone. In July 1942, the Japanese snatched a 4.5-meter-tall golden Buddha.

At that time, the Philippine treasury contained 51 tons of gold, 32 tons of silver bars, 140 tons of silver coins, and 27 million U.S. Treasury bonds, as well as a large number of precious stones and securities. All of this wealth, with the exception of a portion of silver coins, fell into the hands of the Japanese.

The Japanese surrounded the residential areas of the upper class and the middle class, forcing them to leave their homes. Subsequently, the gendarmes raided the house and looted all valuables and metal products. They also often searched civilians for hidden gold and precious stones.

A large number of Japanese bank employees were sent to various parts of Southeast Asia to assist the Japanese army in clearing local bank accounts and finding hidden accounts and property. The Japanese used torture and other means to force local bank staff to hand over the keys to secret warehouses and safes, and those who refused to cooperate were mostly tortured to death, using this method, the Japanese received 52 million guilders in cash at a time in the Bank of Java.

The Japanese also plundered wealth through mass kidnappings for ransom, forced labor, and the establishment of criminal establishments such as casinos and brothels. In addition to naked robbery, every time the Japanese army occupied a place, it issued military tickets without any credit and capital reserves, and forced them to circulate. In this way, they received a large amount of supplies as well as a large amount of currency for the occupied territories.

After occupying the three eastern provinces, the Central Bank of Manchukuo was established, and the occupation coupons were issued as new currency, forcing Chinese residents to exchange valuable Chinese currency for Chinese currency to extract war materials from China. The Japanese did the same in Southeast Asia. The continuous increase in the issuance of military tickets has caused inflation, and the credibility of military tickets has been declining, and when one type of military ticket loses its credit, Japan replaces the old one with a new one.

In northern China, Watanabe extorted large quantities of gold, jewelry, and art by threatening to castrate the eldest son of a wealthy man. In Singapore, he opened the way with atrocities, and on February 21, 1942, he ordered a massacre of Chinese Singaporeans, and a total of 40,000 Chinese in the Malay Peninsula were slaughtered.

Then he asked the Chinese to contribute 50 million yen to the emperor "atonement money" The panicked Chinese in Singapore could not raise such a huge amount of money in a short period of time, so he borrowed money from the Yokohama Zhengjin Bank on behalf of the Chinese, and used this huge wealth to give to the emperor as a gift, and then forced the Chinese to hand over a large amount of gold bricks and foreign hard currency and tangible assets.

The Japanese army and the mafia also established a system of comfort women, and women were recruited from Asian countries, mainly Korea and China, to serve as comfort women. It is estimated that as many as 200,000 women have been persecuted. The filthy money that these women exchanged for their bodies also went into the hands of the Japanese militarists as part of the Golden Lily Project.

The skull and teeth of Peking Man, China's national treasure and the most precious in anthropological history, may have been looted by the Japanese invading forces to the Japanese Imperial Palace.

In November 1941, a few weeks before the outbreak of the Pacific War, the staff of Peking Union Medical College feared that Japan would snatch this rare treasure and planned to transfer the fossils to the Smith Institute in the United States to be shipped back after the victory of the war. They carefully packed the fossils and placed them in nine iron ammunition boxes, which were handed over to the U.S. Navy lieutenant welfare.

Welfare was then subject to diplomatic immunity, and the boxes could be taken away as his personal property. But before Welfare left China, the attack on Pearl Harbor broke out. To protect the fossils, he carried a box with him, and four and a half weeks later, a Japanese officer snatched it. Welfare worked as a prisoner of war laborer in the mines of Mitsubishi for three and a half years, and after the war he told his friends about it.

Through the Golden Lily Project, the wealth plundered by Japan in Southeast Asia was transported to Tokyo via Manila. Immaterial assets such as stocks, securities, and gold certificates were sent to the Yokohama Shojin Bank and the Bank of Japan, and then transferred to the accounts opened by the Japanese at the Neutral Bank of China. The plundered gold was cast into gold nuggets that met international standards and deposited in neutral banks.

At that time, the largest shareholder of Yokohama Shojin Bank was Emperor Hirohito, who owned 22% of the shares. By the end of the war, Hirohito had $100 million in assets, equivalent to $1 billion today, in the form of gold and foreign currencies in banks in Switzerland, South America, Portugal, Spain, and Vantican.

When Nanjing was in ruins, China's precious collection of books and documents was also closely protected by the Japanese army. Later, more than 1,000 Japanese experts came to Nanjing to prioritize the most precious objects for the Imperial Library of Japan, and the emperor personally looked at the catalogue of the most precious objects.

The selected items were numbered and packed, and the boxes were transported to Shanghai in more than 300 trucks and loaded onto ships. Some of these books were used to establish the Institute of East Asian Studies, the Institute of Oriental Culture, the Institute of East Asian Economics, the Institute of East Asian Endemic Diseases, and the Greater East Asia Library in Tokyo.

After the war, the United States confirmed that there were at least 17 places in Japan where these wartime looted books were stored, including the Imperial Palace, the Imperial Palace, the Yasukuni Shrine, the Tokyo Science Museum, the Tokyo Academy of Fine Arts, Waseda University, Tokyo Imperial University, and Keio University. The U.S. occupation authorities concluded that Japan had 3 million rare books and manuscripts looted from libraries across China. Japan has returned only about 160,000 copies, less than 6 per cent.