Japanese Fort

JAPANESE FORT

 Now accommodates the Municipality’s Phil. Nat’l Police Headquarter. The barracks is self-sustaining with potable crystal-clear spring water where local residents flock for their drinking water, have their bath and wash their clothes.

In the Second World War, when the Japanese invaded the Philippines, the Japanese military built a big camp in Malabang, including a network of tunnels around it. It was considered a major camp of the Japanese forces. In 1942, the Philippine Supreme Court Chief Justice Jose Abad Santos was brought to this camp, after he was captured in Cebu while fleeing from Japanese forces. Chief Justice Abad Santos was executed in the camp and was buried in Barangay Curahab. The place was later named Barangay Jose Abad Santos.