Jelaskan Latar belakang dari Pendudukan Filipina oleh Jepang

Jepang melancarkan sebuah serangan di Filipina pada 8 Desember 1941, tepat sepuluh jam setelah serangan Pearl Harbor.

Agoncillo Teodoro A. The Fateful Years: Japan's Adventure in the Philippines, 1941–1945. Quezon City, PI: R.P. Garcia Publishing Co., 1965. 2 vols

Hartendorp A. V.H. The Japanese Occupation of the Philippines. Manila: Bookmark, 1967. 2 vols.

Lear, Elmer. The Japanese Occupation of the Philippines: Leyte, 1941–1945. Southeast Asia Program, Department of Far Eastern Studies, Cornell University, 1961. 246p. emphasis on social history

Steinberg, David J. Philippine Collaboration in World War II. University of Michigan Press, 1967. 235p.