Tolong jelaskan mengenai Latar belakang dari Pendudukan Filipina oleh Jepang

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

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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.