Title: Unjust Enrichment
First published: January 2001
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.
Subjects: Industries, Prisoners of war, Industrial mobilization, World War, 1939-1945, History, Forced labor, Japanese Prisoners and prisons, World war, 1939-1945, campaigns, pacific ocean, Industries, japan, World war, 1939-1945, atrocities, World war, 1939-1945, japan, Slave labor, Corporations, japan, Labor camps