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Partial History
During Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay, there has been a group of Japanese soldiers (about 40) stationed by the pagoda. Most of the Japanese soldiers got killed in the battle and about 14 of them survive the initial battle but were killed in actions as the British advanced further. Only a Japanese couple escape the British by hiding in a fox hole in the area. Once the British army has passed, the couple started the escape journey by land going south. They arrive sick to Kan Taung village, where the U Tin, head of the village and his wife look after them providing porridge and treating them with Myanmar traditional medicine and hid them from the British. Then they continue their escape journey Tandaung-Kyaukkyi-Shwegyin route, then Mawlamyine, Thai and back to Yame in Kyushu island, their hometown. The escape Japanese soldier (who is reportedly a big shareholder of Toyota company) came back to the place in 1980's to collect bones of the Japanese soldiers bringing along the escape journal. They They found the fox hole as it is. They help back the people on their escape route. The help with some building in Kan Taung middle school. (The headmistress of the school later got prison sentence for embezzlement of this Japanese donation.) They also help with quite a few middle schools in Mawlamyine. They brought a water purification system for Nagayon pagoda, built a new building and finished the building of the Nagayon pagoda, which is started (but left unfinished) by a very wealthy local donor, Daw Aye by donating Kyats 2.5 million at the time when the money has value and Kyats 0.1 (10 Pya) can buy 3 bricks. The Japanese not only help finished the Pagoda but it also make the site to wish for peace on earth and celebrate it annually on Septermber 25. https://japan-warmemorial.com/meiktilapagoda/ It is the Japanese themselves who has provided the story as then the sitting monk even was Koyinlay (a very young monk) at the time of the battle.