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Sept. 3 a working holiday to commemorate Yamashita surrender

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MANILA- President Rodrigo Duterte has declared Tuesday, Sept. 3 as a national special working holiday to mark the surrender of Japanese soldiers led by Army General Tomoyuki Yamashita at the end of World War II.Republic Act No. 11216, signed by the President on Feb. 14, commemorates the surrender of the Japanese general and his forces in Baguio City in 1945.The surrender signaled the end of World War II in the Pacific.The following year, Yamashita was hanged at Los Baños, Laguna.

President Rodrigo Duterte has declared Tuesday, Sept. 3 as a national special working holiday to mark the surrender of Japanese soldiers led by Army General Tomoyuki Yamashita at the end of World War II.

President Rodrigo Duterte has declared Tuesday, Sept. 3 as a national special working holiday to mark the surrender of Japanese soldiers led by Army General Tomoyuki Yamashita at the end of World War II.