Unjust enrichment
Subtitle: how Japan's companies built postwar fortunes using American POWs
By: Linda Goetz Holmes
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Konecky & Konecky
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Old Saybrook, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9781568526751
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Japanese Prisoners and prisons; Industries; History; Prisoners of war; Forced labor; Industrial mobilization
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-197) and index.
Table of contents: title: "A personal war, a dirty war"; title: "We don't recognize the Red Cross"; title: "The use of white POW is earnestly desired"; title: Voyages in hell; title: Mitsui : "we will send you to Omuta"; title: Mitsui : hidden horror, hidden treasures; title: Showa Denko : daily dangers; title: NKK : hard times everywhere; title: Mitsubishi : empire of exploitation; title: Kawasaki : from slave laborers to subway riders; title: Double-crossed relief; title: "Not to leave any traces"; title: Tokyo trials : the dog that did not bark; title: What is a lifetime worth?; title: Balancing the books.