Prominent among those arguing for the existence of Yamashita's gold are Sterling Seagrave and Peggy Seagrave, who have written two books relating to the subject: The Yamato Dynasty: The Secret History of Japan's Imperial Family (2000) and Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold (2003).
Yamashita'nın altınları konusunu savunan ve dile getirenler arasında Sterling Seagrave ve Peggy Seagrave yakın zamanda yazdıkları The Yamato Dynasty: the Secret History of Japan's Imperial Family (2000) ve Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold (2003) kitapları ile konuyu yeniden gündeme taşımışlardır.