Unjust Enrichment
Subtitle: How Japan's Companies Built Postwar Fortunes Using American Pows
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: January 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780811718448
Subjects: Prisoners of war; World history: Second World War; Second World War, 1939-1945; Japan; History - Military / War; History: World; Military - World War II; Asia - Japan; History; 20th century; Industries; Prisoners and prisons, Japanes; Prisoners and prisons, Japanese; World War, 1939-1945
First sentence: IN MID-1941, A GROUP OF JAPANESE DIPLOMATS BOWED POLITELY, ONE BY one, as they departed from a meeting at the White House with President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Description: During World War II, 32,260 Americans were held as prisoners of war of the Japanese. Thousands were shipped to do forced labor in the factories, shipyards, & mines of Japan--at the specific request of major Japanese companies. For more than 50 years, this story has gone untold--until now. Combining investigative research, personal interviews with more than 400 ex-POWs, excerpts from POW diaries, & samples of the more than 300 recently declassified documents, Pacific War historian Linda Goetz Holmes reveals the brutal & exploitative practices of Japanese companies during World War II.