Post by Karl Welteke on May 3, 2018 16:51:10 GMT 8
Japanese Memorial Garden on Corregidor
The history is a very unique story!
This garden is also referred as the Japanese Garden of Pease. It was perhaps the only Japanese Cemetery of the Pacific War as the Japanese customary cremated their death in WWII
The American 3045th Quartermaster Grave Company established it at the end of the WWII, then in the following 40 years jungle growth covered it. It is a amazing story that it was rediscovered and it became a place to commemorate all soldiers in WWII.
In Feb.1985 Bataan Veteran ZOETH SKINNER rediscovered the site. He found the photograph in a garage sale in Oregon and it guided him. The profile of Caballo Island can be very clearly seen in the Background.
In 1986, with the permission of the Philippine Government, the remains were exhumed and returned to Japan and it became the Japanese Memorial Garden.
Four of the remaining Japanese Artillery pieces have been placed here. The Wakayama 61st Infantry Regiment that captured Corregidor and forced the surrender of the Philippines has this monument here, honoring all Filipino, American and Japanese fallen souls.
The Shinyou Tay Suicide Boat forces are listed with numbers of the casualties, which were mostly on Corregidor. A large Kan-non (Buddhism) stature was erected in memory of the war victims. Many other small or bigger commemoration markers were established.
The garden is a beautiful place to reflect and the looking over the waters between Caballo and Corregidor Island and can imagine that this area was volcanic caldera.
This is a comprehensive collection of images about the Japanese Memorial Garden on Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills. The images were shot on the 7th April 2018 on the day of Tribute to all Filipino Veterans which was commemorated at the Filipino Heroes Memorial, located just above the Japanese Memorial Garden on that day. This album has 87 images which do not have a specific description, other than to say that this is a picture of this garden. This is the URL:
s74.photobucket.com/user/PI-Sailor/library/Corregidor%20by%20subject/Monuments%20Museums%20etc/Japanese%20Memorial%20Garden?sort=9&page=1
Note from Karl: I just tried it with another PC and it works. We all know about Photobucket drowning you, the viewer with advertisement. If you are open the above album, click slideshow and also move your curser and the image description shows and the advertisement is gone.
In this forum presentation I start with 10 images:
Za927. This is the entrance to the Japanese Memorial Garden on Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills.
Za928. This is the Google map to show the Japanese Memorial Garden on Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills.
Za929. This was the Japanese Cemetery on Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills.
Za929. The American 3045th Quartermaster Grave Company established it at the end of the WWII, then in the following 40 years jungle growth covered it. It is a amazing story that it was rediscovered and it became a place to commemorate all soldiers in WWII.
Za930. The Wakayama 61st Infantry Regiment that captured Corregidor Monument on Corregidor.
Za930. The Wakayama 61st Infantry Regiment that captured Corregidor and forced the surrender of the Philippines has this monument here, honoring all Filipino, American and Japanese fallen souls.
Za931. The Shinyou Tay Suicide Boat forces are listed with numbers of the casualties, which were mostly on Corregidor.
Za931. The Shinyou Tay Suicide Boat forces are listed with numbers of the casualties, which were mostly on Corregidor. This is on a tablet on a wall near the concession stands.
Za932. A large Kan-non (Buddhism) stature in the Japanese Memorial Garden was erected in memory of the war victims.
Za933. A large Kan-non (Buddhism) stature in the Japanese Memorial Garden was erected in memory of the war victims. This is the information plaque.
Za934. One of other commemoration markers dedicated to individuals or groups that have been placed in the Japanese Memorial Garden.
Za935. One of other commemoration markers dedicated to individuals or groups that have been placed in the Japanese Memorial Garden.
The history is a very unique story!
This garden is also referred as the Japanese Garden of Pease. It was perhaps the only Japanese Cemetery of the Pacific War as the Japanese customary cremated their death in WWII
The American 3045th Quartermaster Grave Company established it at the end of the WWII, then in the following 40 years jungle growth covered it. It is a amazing story that it was rediscovered and it became a place to commemorate all soldiers in WWII.
In Feb.1985 Bataan Veteran ZOETH SKINNER rediscovered the site. He found the photograph in a garage sale in Oregon and it guided him. The profile of Caballo Island can be very clearly seen in the Background.
In 1986, with the permission of the Philippine Government, the remains were exhumed and returned to Japan and it became the Japanese Memorial Garden.
Four of the remaining Japanese Artillery pieces have been placed here. The Wakayama 61st Infantry Regiment that captured Corregidor and forced the surrender of the Philippines has this monument here, honoring all Filipino, American and Japanese fallen souls.
The Shinyou Tay Suicide Boat forces are listed with numbers of the casualties, which were mostly on Corregidor. A large Kan-non (Buddhism) stature was erected in memory of the war victims. Many other small or bigger commemoration markers were established.
The garden is a beautiful place to reflect and the looking over the waters between Caballo and Corregidor Island and can imagine that this area was volcanic caldera.
This is a comprehensive collection of images about the Japanese Memorial Garden on Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills. The images were shot on the 7th April 2018 on the day of Tribute to all Filipino Veterans which was commemorated at the Filipino Heroes Memorial, located just above the Japanese Memorial Garden on that day. This album has 87 images which do not have a specific description, other than to say that this is a picture of this garden. This is the URL:
s74.photobucket.com/user/PI-Sailor/library/Corregidor%20by%20subject/Monuments%20Museums%20etc/Japanese%20Memorial%20Garden?sort=9&page=1
Note from Karl: I just tried it with another PC and it works. We all know about Photobucket drowning you, the viewer with advertisement. If you are open the above album, click slideshow and also move your curser and the image description shows and the advertisement is gone.
In this forum presentation I start with 10 images:
Za927. This is the entrance to the Japanese Memorial Garden on Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills.
Za928. This is the Google map to show the Japanese Memorial Garden on Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills.
Za929. This was the Japanese Cemetery on Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills.
Za929. The American 3045th Quartermaster Grave Company established it at the end of the WWII, then in the following 40 years jungle growth covered it. It is a amazing story that it was rediscovered and it became a place to commemorate all soldiers in WWII.
Za930. The Wakayama 61st Infantry Regiment that captured Corregidor Monument on Corregidor.
Za930. The Wakayama 61st Infantry Regiment that captured Corregidor and forced the surrender of the Philippines has this monument here, honoring all Filipino, American and Japanese fallen souls.
Za931. The Shinyou Tay Suicide Boat forces are listed with numbers of the casualties, which were mostly on Corregidor.
Za931. The Shinyou Tay Suicide Boat forces are listed with numbers of the casualties, which were mostly on Corregidor. This is on a tablet on a wall near the concession stands.
Za932. A large Kan-non (Buddhism) stature in the Japanese Memorial Garden was erected in memory of the war victims.
Za933. A large Kan-non (Buddhism) stature in the Japanese Memorial Garden was erected in memory of the war victims. This is the information plaque.
Za934. One of other commemoration markers dedicated to individuals or groups that have been placed in the Japanese Memorial Garden.
Za935. One of other commemoration markers dedicated to individuals or groups that have been placed in the Japanese Memorial Garden.