Download or read book Prisons and Forced Labour in Japan written by Pia Maria Jolliffe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prisons and Forced Labour in Japan examines the local, national and international significance of convict labour during the colonization of Hokkaido between 1881 and 1894 and the building of the Japanese empire. Based on the analysis of archival sources such as prison yearbooks and letters, as well as other eyewitness accounts, this book uses a framework of global prison studies to trace the historical origins of prisons and forced labour in early modern Japan. It explores the institutionalization of convict labour on Hokkaido against the backdrop of political uprisings during the Meiji period. In so doing, it argues that although Japan tried to implement Western ideas of the prison as a total institution, the concrete reality of the prison differed from theoretical concepts. In particular, the boundaries between prisons and their environment were not clearly marked during the colonization of Hokkaido. This book provides an important contribution to the historiography of Meiji Japan and Hokkaido and to the global study of prisons and forced labour in general. As such, it will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese, Asian and labour history.
Download or read book Japanese Prison Labor Practices written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Security, International Organizations, and Human Rights and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.
Download or read book Unjust Enrichment written by Linda Goetz Holmes and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Japanese Prison Labor Practices written by United States Congress House Commi and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report from the early 1990s examines allegations of forced labor in Japanese prisons, with a focus on conditions for foreign workers. The report includes testimony from US officials and human rights activists, as well as Japanese government representatives. The report provides a detailed look at the complexities of labor relations in Japan and highlights some of the challenges faced by international workers. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Japanese American Incarceration written by Stephanie D. Hinnershitz and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1942 and 1945, the U.S. government wrongfully imprisoned thousands of Japanese American citizens and profited from their labor. Japanese American Incarceration recasts the forced removal and incarceration of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II as a history of prison labor and exploitation. Following Franklin Roosevelt's 1942 Executive Order 9066, which called for the exclusion of potentially dangerous groups from military zones along the West Coast, the federal government placed Japanese Americans in makeshift prisons throughout the country. In addition to working on day-to-day operations of the camps, Japanese Americans were coerced into harvesting crops, digging irrigation ditches, paving roads, and building barracks for little to no compensation and often at the behest of privately run businesses—all in the name of national security. How did the U.S. government use incarceration to address labor demands during World War II, and how did imprisoned Japanese Americans respond to the stripping of not only their civil rights, but their labor rights as well? Using a variety of archives and collected oral histories, Japanese American Incarceration uncovers the startling answers to these questions. Stephanie Hinnershitz's timely study connects the government's exploitation of imprisoned Japanese Americans to the history of prison labor in the United States.
Download or read book The Diary of Prisoner 17326 written by John K. Stutterheim and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2012-09-03 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving memoir of childhood in Dutch colonial Java, coming of age in wartime, and the trauma of life in WWII Labor Camps run by the Japanese. As a boy growing up the Dutch island colony of Java, John K. Stutterheim spent hours exploring his exotic surroundings, taking walks with his younger brother and dachshund along winding jungle roads. It was a fairly typical life for a colonial family in the Dutch East Indies, but their colonial idyll ended when the Japanese invaded in 1942, when John was fourteen. With the surrender of Java, John’s father was taken prisoner. Soon thereafter, John, his younger brother, and his mother were imprisoned. A year later he and his brother were moved to a forced labor camp for boys, where disease, starvation, and the constant threat of imminent death took their toll. Throughout all of these travails, John kept a secret diary hidden in his mattress. His memories now offer a unique perspective on an often-overlooked episode of World War II. What emerges is a compelling story of a young man caught up in the machinations of a global war—struggling to survive while caring for his gravely ill brother.
Download or read book Prison Conditions in Japan written by Joanna Weschler and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 1995 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes five theories of substance abuse treatment and details how to translate each theory into actual practice. Material on 12-step, psychodynamic, behavioral, marital/family, and motivational approaches incorporates case examples, discussion of advantages and disadvantages of each approach, and treatment techniques. Includes a chapter on emerging pharmacological approaches. For advanced students in psychology, social work, and medicine, and for substance abuse counselors in training. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Japanese Prison Labor Practices written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Security, International Organizations, and Human Rights and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.
Download or read book Learning Migration and Intergenerational Relations written by Pia Jolliffe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the Karen people in Burma, Thailand and the United Kingdom, this book analyses how global, regional and local developments affect patterns of learning. It combines historical and ethnographic research to explore the mutual shaping of intergenerational relations and children’s practical and formal learning within a context of migration and socio-political change. In this endeavour, Pia Jolliffe discusses traditional patterns of socio-cultural learning within Karen communities as well as the role of Christian missionaries in introducing schooling to the Karen in Burma and in Thailand. This is followed by an analysis of children’s migration for education in northern Thailand where state schools often encourage students’ aspirations towards upward social mobility at the same time as schools reproduce social inequality between the rural Karen and urban Thai society. The author draws attention to international humanitarian agencies who deliver education to refugees and migrants at the Thai-Burma border, as well as the role of UK government schools in the process of resettling Karen refugees. In this way, the book analyses the connections between learning, migration and intergenerational relations in households, schools and other institutions at the local, regional and global level.
Download or read book Japanese Prison Labor Practices written by United States; Congress; House Security and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Japanese Prison Labor Practices: Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittee on International Security, International Organizations and Human Rights and Asia and the Pacific of the Committee on Foreign Affairs House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, June 10, 1994 The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10:30 a.m. in room 2172, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Gary L. Ackerman (chairman of the subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific) presiding. Mr. Ackerman. Good Morning. The subcommittees will come to order. The Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific and the Subcommittee on International Security, International Organizations and Human Rights meet today in open session to discuss a very serious matter. Let me say for the record there is no one in this Congress who places greater value on U.S.-Japanese relations. Indeed, the U.S.-Japan bilateral relationship is one of the most important bilateral relationships anywhere in the world. It is for this reason that I was so terribly disheartened a week or so ago when Mr. Christopher Lavinger, who had been my constituent, came to my New York office and detailed his history of being forced, along with approximately 35,000 other prisoners, to produce commercial goods while incarcerated in Japanese prisons. These prisoners are forced to work for as little as 3 cents per hour, slave wages, 81/2 hours per day, 51/2 days per week producing commercial goods bearing the names of such prestigious, internationally recognized Japanese companies and Japanese subsidiaries of international companies such as Burberry's, Sega, Mizuno, as well as, Mitsukoshi and Daimaru, two of Japan's largest department stores. In a letter to Ambassador Takakazuk Kuriyama, I have demanded to know how widespread this practice is, how much has been for export, which companies have been participating in this, and the full and complete details of this program. When I spoke with the Ambassador yesterday, he informed me that he believes this practice is not against international or domestic Japanese law. He also informed me that these products are, indeed, exported in some cases out of Japan, but that the companies are told not to ship them to the United States because of our prohibition concerning prison labor. There is evidently from what we can gather at this point no enforcement mechanism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works
Download or read book Prisoners of the Empire written by Sarah Kovner and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Allied POWs in the Pacific theater of World War II suffered terribly. But abuse wasn't a matter of Japanese policy, as is commonly assumed. Sarah Kovner shows poorly trained guards and rogue commanders inflicted the most horrific damage. Camps close to centers of imperial power tended to be less violent, and many POWs died from friendly fire.
Download or read book Emperor s Irish Slaves written by Robert Widders and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sister Mary Cooper died in a Japanese prison camp from the combined effects of starvation, brutality, and tropical diseases. Timothy Kenneally, and Patrick Fitzgerald tried to escape from a slave labour camp on the Burma Railway. They were were caught, tortured - crucified - and then executed on 27 March 1943. And Patrick Carberry spent the summer of 1943 cremating the emaciated corpses of his comrades, who had died from cholera. These people had two things in common: they were Irish citizens serving with the British armed forces; and they were amongst more than 650 Irish men and women who became prisoners of the Imperial Japanese Army in 1942. Nearly a quarter of them were murdered whilst in Japanese captivity - this is their story. Combining historical narrative with first-hand accounts of the conditions in Japanese POW camps, Robert Widders brings to light their suffering and the strength that saw them home again.
Download or read book Prisoners of the Japanese in World War II written by Van Waterford and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narratives and facts on life in civilian internment centers and POW camps are presented here.
Download or read book Sugamo Prison Tokyo written by John L. Ginn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1992 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of World War II, Sugamo Prison housed some of the most infamous Japanese war criminals, including Premier Hideki Tojo and I. Torgui D'Aquino, better known as Tokyo Rose. In all, over 2,000 war criminals and protected witnesses were held at Sugamo. Almost sixty prisoners were executed and many others were sentenced to prison terms.This story of a largely forgotten part of World War II, by a man who was a Sugamo guard for over two years, gives an inside look at the prison. Details are given about the prisoners (classified A, B, and C, based on the severity of their crimes), the trials, the sentencing, the executions, and the American guards. Appendices include listings of the accused, those executed, and a roster of American personnel.
Download or read book Correctional Institutions in Japan written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reassessing the Japanese Prisoner of War Experience written by R P W Havers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-03-27 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular perceptions of life in Japanese prisoner of war camps are dominated by images of emaciated figures, engaged in slave labour, and badly treated by their captors. This book, based on extensive original research, shows that this view is quite wrong in relation to the large camp at Changi, which was the main POW camp in Singapore.
Download or read book Prisoners of the Japanese written by Gavan Daws and published by Pocket Books. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A devastating portrait of the suffering of Japanese-held POWs in the Second World War.
