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RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .J3 H58 2001 |
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Available |
| Barcode |
13676 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 811718441 (hardbound)
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| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 805 .J3 H58 2001
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Holmes, Linda Goetz
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Unjust enrichment :
- Remainder of title - how Japan's companies built post-war fortunes using American POWs /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Linda Goetz Holmes
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Mechanicsburg, PA :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Stackpole Books
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2001
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xxii, 202 p. :
- Other physical details - ill.,
- Dimensions - 24 x 16 cm
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - This book discloses how major Japanese companies like Mitsui and Mitsubishi made use of slave labor by Allied (American, British, Dutch and other) prisoners of war in Japan. In so doing, they maintained their wartime activities and carried out Japan's policy of brutality to the prisoners of war, to the point of overworking them, denying them food and medicine and even aid sent by the US and British governments for the POWs. Holmes also recounts how the US government neglected the POWs after the war and did not take steps to recompense the prisoners of war, almost nine-tenths did not return home alive. The author interviewed many surviving POWs, as well as officials of the Central Intelligence Agency and the US government. She consulted recently declassified confidential documents which linked Japanese companies to POW camps. (She had been a member of the National Archives team to declassify previously confidential World War II documents). Appendices list Japanese companies involved, POW ships to Japan (aka hell ships). Several revealing documents are included in the text. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Forced labor
- Geographic subdivision - Japan
- General subdivision - History
- Chronological subdivision - 20th Century.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Industrial mobilization
- Geographic subdivision - Japan
- General subdivision - History
- Chronological subdivision - 20th Century.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Industries
- Geographic subdivision - Japan
- General subdivision - History
- Chronological subdivision - 20th Century.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - Japan.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - United States.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
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