Prisons And Forced Labour In Japan

Author : Pia Maria Jolliffe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351206334

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Prisons and Forced Labour in Japan by Pia Maria Jolliffe Pdf

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.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Security, International Organizations, and Human Rights
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCR:31210013513039

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Japanese Prison Labor Practices by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Security, International Organizations, and Human Rights Pdf

Distributed to some depository libraries in microfiche.

Author : United States Congress House Commi
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019948183

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Japanese Prison Labor Practices by United States Congress House Commi Pdf

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.

Author : Linda Goetz Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015056283099

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Unjust Enrichment by Linda Goetz Holmes Pdf

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.

Author : John K. Stutterheim
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780823250141

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The Diary of Prisoner 17326 by John K. Stutterheim Pdf

In this moving memoir a young man comes of age in an age of violence, brutality, and war. Recounting his experiences during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, this account brings to life the shocking day-to-day conditions in a Japanese labor camp and provides an intimate look at the collapse of Dutch colonial rule. As a boy growing up on the island of Java, John Stutterheim spent hours exploring his exotic surroundings, taking walks with his younger brother and dachshund along winding jungle roads. His father, a government accountant, would grumble at the pro-German newspaper and from time to time entertain the family with his singing. It was a fairly typical life for a colonial family in the Dutch East Indies, and a peaceful and happy childhood for young John. But at the age of 14 it would all be irrevocably shattered by the Japanese invasion. With the surrender of Java in 1942, John’s father was taken prisoner. For over three years the family would not know if he was alive or dead. 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 they toiled under the fierce sun while disease and starvation slowly took their toll, all the while suspecting they would soon be killed. Throughout all of these travails, John kept a secret diary hidden in his handmade mattress, and 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 in the face of horrible brutality, struggling to care for his disease-wracked brother, and struggling to put his family back together. It is a story that must not be forgotten.

Author : Stephanie D. Hinnershitz
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812299953

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Japanese American Incarceration by Stephanie D. Hinnershitz Pdf

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.

Author : Joanna Weschler,Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1564321460

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Prison Conditions in Japan by Joanna Weschler,Human Rights Watch (Organization) Pdf

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

Author : R P W Havers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135788773

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Reassessing the Japanese Prisoner of War Experience by R P W Havers Pdf

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.

Author : Robert Widders
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1520810040

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Emperor's Irish Slaves by Robert Widders Pdf

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.

Author : Van Waterford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015032588462

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Prisoners of the Japanese in World War II by Van Waterford Pdf

Narratives and facts on life in civilian internment centers and POW camps are presented here.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Corrections
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063324045

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Correctional Institutions in Japan by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dirk van Zyl Smit,Frieder Dünkel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429762284

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Prison Labour: Salvation or Slavery? by Dirk van Zyl Smit,Frieder Dünkel Pdf

First published in 1999, this collection of articles responds to the controversial debate on whether prison labour constitutes betterment or slave labour. The volume is a stock-taking exercise designed to elicit basic information as a foundation for reconsidering fixed assumptions about prison labour. This controversial issue has had sometimes diametrically opposed claims about it over the years. Contributors examine the issue within the context of a range of countries, alongside broader perspectives on international elements and reflections.

Author : Sarah Kovner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780674737617

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Prisoners of the Empire by Sarah Kovner Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Jeffrey Frank Jones
Page : 1717 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Japanese War Crimes and Related Topics: A Guide to Records at the National Archives by Anonim Pdf

This finding aid will help researchers interested in Japanese war crimes, war criminals, and war crimes trials to navigate the vast holdings of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration at College Park (NARA). It will also be useful to anyone interested in military, intelligence, political, diplomatic, economic, financial, social, and cultural activities in the Far East during 1931-1951, as well as to those searching for information regarding Allied prisoners of war; the organization, functions, and activities of American and Allied agencies; and the Japanese occupation of countries and the American occupation of Japan. While not aimed at researchers interested in the strategic and tactical military and naval history of the war in the Far East, this finding aid may nevertheless be useful to those with such interests, if only to identify record groups and series of records that may bear on those topics. This finding aid covers records from over twenty record groups and includes materials declassified under the Japanese Imperial Government Disclosure Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-567) as well as records that were never classified and those declassified before the passage of the Disclosure Act. Because the process of identifying, declassifying, accessioning, and processing of records under the Act is taking place as this finding is being compiled, late arriving records may not be identified in this finding aid. Researchers should consult the IWG Web site (http://www.archives.gov/iwg/) for a complete and up-to-date list of records declassified under the Japanese Imperial Government Disclosure Act. Federal agencies involved in the identification and declassification of relevant classified records ascertained that there were relatively few pertinent records that were still classified. Most relevant records were either never classified or were declassified decades before the Act and were already in NARA’s custody. While this finding aid’s coverage is broad, it is not comprehensive. Researchers may find other relevant series of records within the record groups mentioned or not mentioned. Researchers are encouraged to use other finding aids and consult with NARA staff to locate records of interest. In addition, the National Archives at College Park holds nontextual records (such as still photographs and motion pictures) that researchers may want to examine. Other NARA facilities hold many records and donated material related to World War II, including records related to the subjects covered in this finding aid. This is particularly true of the Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Harry S. Truman, and the Dwight D. Think of archives as vast mountain ranges of records with the archivists guiding the expeditions. Explorations on familiar, well-trodden paths produce new perspectives when examined with fresh eyes and imagination.

Author : D Van Zijl-Smit,Frieder Dünkel
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004641778

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Imprisonment Today and Tomorrow by D Van Zijl-Smit,Frieder Dünkel Pdf

This book describes the purposes and other aspects of imprisonment in various societies, addressing broad questions of penal policy. Twenty-three national overviews generally discuss quantitative developments, types of prisons, organisational structures, the legal framework and specific problems such as complaints procedures, judicial control of prison administration, medical treatment of prisoners, prison labour, visits and outside contacts, security measures, control of the early release of sentenced prisoners, etc. The country reports included are: Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England and Wales, Federal Republic of Germany, France, German Democratic Republic, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, The People's Republic of China, Poland, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United States and the United Nations.