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1 online resource (xx, 433 pages) :, During the Pacific War the Japanese government used a wide range of methods to recruit workers for construction projects throughout the occupied territories. Mistreatment of workers was a major grievance, both in widely publicized cases such as the use of prisoners of war and forced Asian labor to construct the Thailand-Burma \"\"Death\"\" Railway, and in a very large number of smaller projects. In this book an international group of specialists on the Occupation period examine the labor needs and the recruitment and use of workers (whether forced, military, or otherwise) throughout the Japanese e, Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-419) and index, I: Japan -- Labor mobilization in Japan and the Japanese empire / Paul H. Kratoska -- II: Manchuria -- Labor policy and the construction industry in Manchukuo : systems of recruitment, management, and control / David Tucker -- III: North China -- Northern Chinese laborers and Manchukuo / Ju Zhifen -- IV: Korea -- Japan's Korean soldiers in the Pacific war / Utsumi Aiko -- Korean forced labor in Japan's wartime empire / Naitou Hisako -- V: Taiwan -- Total war, labor drafts, and colonial adm

Author

Kratoska, Paul H

Publisher

Armonk, N.Y. : Sharpe

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781317476405

Subjects

Science, History, Management