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In plain English, the inscription says:

This Filipino-Japanese-American Amity Memorial Shrine marks the easternmost portion of the main defense site that runs west along the two ridges converging on the top of this mountain range where the main elements of the Japanese Imperial Army of the 174thIndependent Unit under the command of Col. Satoshi Oie, properly positioned in a series of bunkers, dug-outs, foxholes and tunnels linked by connecting trenches, had battled the combined forces of the 164th American Division, United States Army and Guerilla elements of the 73rd provisional Division, 7th Military District of Negros Island. The battle of the ridges commenced in earnest on April 27, 1945, and by the early part of June 1945, the combined Fil-American forces captured these ridges from the Japanese defenders. The remnants of the Japanese-Imperial Forces withdrew from these ridges and finally surrendered by the roadside, north of the town of Zamboanguita on September 22, 1945, signaling the end of the hostilities in Negros Oriental.