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Grant said: ""Several examples are given of serious scholars who believe that YG existed. There are others."" I would like to see some quotes from those other serious scholars who believe that Yamashita's gold existed. To date, everything in the article has come out of the Seagraves novels, with ""other historians"" and ""various accounts"" tacked on for emphasis (?)

A dubious source could be like the Richard Hoyt novel “Old Soldiers Sometimes Lie”. Mr. Hoyt is known as a fiction/mystery writer and has like 20 something novels to his credit. I do not have his novel on hand, but it would be nice to see whom he used as a reference source in his notes. I am not a betting man, but I would lay odds that some of those references would sound very familiar. Maybe one of the other editors has a copy and can elaborate. 

Did Chalmers Johnson hurt the Seagrave’s “historian/serious scholar” image in his book review, when he said: “The Seagraves’ narrative is comprehensive, but they are not fully reliable as historians. They have a tendency to overreach, exaggerating the roles of Japanese gangsters and ex-military American bit-players when the bankers, politicians and CIA operatives are scary enough. They know the Philippines well, but are unreliable on Japan and do not read Japanese. The book is full of errors that could easily be corrected by a second-year student of the language – the ship they repeatedly call the Huzi is accurately romanised Fuji; the important Japan Sea port is Maizuru, not Maisaru; tairiki is not a Japanese word: they mean tairiku ronin (a ‘Continental adventurer’ or a ‘China carpetbagger’); and their mysterious Lord Ichivara is an absurdity – no one was ever called ‘Lord’ in postwar Japan and Ichivara is an impossible name (it is surely Ishihara).”? I guess that falls under the WP policy “Articles should rely on reliable, third-party published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy. Sources should be appropriate to the claims made.”   "