Not Forgotten

After the war, teenager Jay Winston witnesses the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal and believes justice has not been served. As he grows into a man, conflicts with his sister Liz and a school teacher make him ever determind to keep his father's memory alive. And so he delves into studies and on going history that brings him into contact with ex-POWs and inside information about how the Japanese zaibatsu treated their prisoners, how Japanese Prince Chichibu secretly hid $100 billion of gold in the Philippines, and how the yakuza murdered his best friend. This drives the protagonist to become a US Congressman and seek justice from the powerful leaders in Japan. Along the way he is drawn into an expedition to recover and keep gold from fallling into the hands of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and Japanese syndicates.
As a congressman, he develops an agenda of five unresolved war issues. Yet every time he pushes the issues, he is blocked, and discovers wrongdoing by the US State Department and heroes Douglas MacArthur and Herbert Hoover. And so he, his sister Liz, and the woman he loves, Catherine Marino, take matters into their own hands.
Before the story ends, Congressman Winston is assaulted in Washington, his sister is abducted, there is a mutiny aboard his 100-foot ship WillyII, the $250 milion in gold he and his friend Chris Bray have recovered may be lost, he's at odds with the Speaker of the House about "Japan bashing," neglecting to care for American ex-POWs, and revealing Japan's Unit 731 atrocities. Building to a climax, Congressman Winston makes a crucial decision to oppose the Vietnam War and expose Marcos and the Japanese for looting gold. The outcome affects therest of his life.