Asian labor in the wartime Japanese empire
Subtitle: unknown histories
By: Paul H. Kratoska, editor.
Contributors: Kratoska, Paul H.
Publisher: Sharpe
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Armonk, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 433
Subjects: Labor -- Japan -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century; World War, 1939-1945 -- Manpower -- Japan -- Colonies; Labor policy -- Japan -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century
Description: Explores the exploitation of Asian labor by Japan as part of its war effort in East and Southeast Asia from 1937 to 1945.
Notes: "An east gate book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-419) and index.
Table of contents: title: I: Japan; title: Labor mobilization in Japan and the Japanese empire / Paul H. Kratoska; title: II: Manchuria; title: Labor policy and the construction industry in Manchukuo : systems of recruitment, management, and control / David Tucker; title: III: North China; title: Northern Chinese laborers and Manchukuo / Ju Zhifen; title: IV: Korea; title: Japan's Korean soldiers in the Pacific war / Utsumi Aiko; title: Korean forced labor in Japan's wartime empire / Naitou Hisako; title: V: Taiwan; title: Total war, labor drafts, and colonial administration : wartime mobilization in Taiwan, 1936-45 / Hui-yu Caroline Ts'ai; title: VI: Indonesia; title: "Economic soldiers" in Java / Shigeru Sato; title: The road to hell : the construction of a railway line in west Java during the Japanese occupation / Harry A. Poeze; title: The heiho during the Japanese occupation of Indonesia / Kaori Maekawa; title: Indonesian rōmusha and coolies under naval administration / Remco Raben; title: End of a forgotten drama : the reception and repatriation of rōmusha after the Japanese capitulation / Henk Hovinga; title: VII: Malaya; title: Labor in the Malay Peninsula and Singapore under Japanese occupation / Paul H. Kratoska; title: Malayan labor on the Thailand-Burma railway / Nakahara Michiko; title: VIII: Philippines; title: Labor usage and mobilization during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, 1942-45 / Ricardo T. Jose; title: IX: Vietnam; title: Working for the Japanese : working for Vietnamese independence, 1941-45 / Trâ̄n M̃y-Vân; title: X: Memory and reconciliation; title: The origin and development of military sexual slavery in imperial Japan / Chin-Sung Chung; title: History, memory, compensation, and reconciliation : the abuse of labor along the Thailand-Burma railway / E. Bruce Reynolds.