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Central North Luzon / Kayapa

Tidang Village, Kayapa, Nueva Viscaya, southwest of Bayombong, has an interest for many Japanese as it was here that General Tomoyuki Yamashita set up his camp at Camp Sadell during WWII. The shrine was severly damaged by the earthquake of July 16, 1990

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It once was common in all countries of Southeast Asia, from Vietnam to Indonesia, and in all of them, it is valued, and therefore was heavily harvested, for the medicinal properties of its roots.