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A Quick Guide To Japan's Role In The Second World War
In December 1941 Japan, already at war with China, attacked British, Dutch and American territories in Asia and the Pacific. By June 1942, Japanese conquests encompassed a vast area of south-east Asia and the western Pacific. Under Japanese occupation, prisoners of war and enslaved civilians were forced to work for their captors in harsh and often inhuman conditions.
Americans Enslaved in Japan During WWII
Les Tenney and Mo Mazer were tortured and starved while working as slaves in Japanese mines during World War II. The men are just two of some 20,000 American GIs taken prisoner in the Pacific and put to work as slave laborers for Japanese companies. Their plight, though a well-established historical fact, has been largely forgotten.
There Are No Civilians in Japan
Allied military planners faced a bitter truth as they planned for a possible invasion of Japan: there were no distinctions between soldiers and civilians.

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Moving Target
After the Japanese occupied the Philippines, one American family found themselves on a run for their lives...
The Philippines Never Surrendered
Focuses on the increase in the number of U.S. and Filipino guerillas resisting the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War II.
Death on the Railroad
In this article the author discusses the Japanese use of slave labor in the Pacific Theater of the Second World War.
Railway to Hell
The article discusses the prisoners of war (POWs) of the Japanese empire and forced labourers that constructed the Thai-Burma railway during World War II, the death and burial of thousands of those workers, and the subsequent location, exhumation, and reburial of those who had died in centralised cemeteries, the largest of which is located in Kanchanaburi, Thailand.
New evidence of the wartime sex slave system implemented by Japan—Reading the archives on the "comfort women" of the Kwantung Army.
The files recently released by the Jilin Provincial Archives on Japan's Kwantung Kenpeitai (Military Police) and other records have revealed an array of crimes committed by Japan in its invasion of China. These include archives on the Japanese military's sex slaves, the "comfort women," detailing the "comfort stations" ubiquitously established by the Japanese military across the northeast, northern and central regions of China as well as Java and other locations, which compelled women to serve as sex slaves.

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ABC News. (2006, January 6). Americans enslaved in Japan during WWII. https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=124054&page=1
Frank, R. B. (2020, August 4). There are no civilians in Japan. World War Two Museum New Orleans. https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/there-are-no-civilians-japan
Imperial War Museums. (2022). A quick guide to Japan's role in the Second World War.https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/a-quick-guide-to-japans-role-in-the-second-world-war
Juder, E. M., & Martin, P. (1945). The Philippines never surrendered. Saturday Evening Post, 217(37), 20.
Levy, C. (2012, July 12). The Japanese Imperial Army's "Comfort Women" fort women: Political implications and the gender of memory. SciencesPo.https://www.sciencespo.fr/mass-violence-war-massacre-resistance/en/document/japanese-imperial-armys-comfort-women-political-implications-and-gender-memory.html
Makepeace, C. (2019). Railway to hell. History Today, 69(2), 72.
Smith, S. T. (2012). Moving target. World War II, 26(6).36.
Tesch, P. (2007). Death on the railroad. New Statesman, 136(4875-4877), 25.
Zhiliang, S. (2020). New evidence of the wartime sex slave system implemented by Japan - reading the archives of the "comfort women" of the Kwantung Army. Chinese Studies in History, 53(1), 6.

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