Unjust enrichment: how Japan's companies built postwar fortunes using American POWs

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. Combin...

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1. Verfasser: Holmes, Linda Goetz (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Mechanicsburg Stackpole Books 2001
Ausgabe:1. ed.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:XXII, 202 S. Ill.
ISBN:0811718441

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