This study looks at Japanese labor policies comparatively across all the occupied territories of Asia during the war years. It also provides a graphic context for examining Japanese colonialism and relations between the Japanese and the people living in the various occupied territories. List of Illustrative Materials ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction xv Paul H. Kratoska List of Abbreviations xix Map of Eastern Asia xxi Map of Eastern Indonesian Archipelago xxii Part I. Japan Labor Mobilization in Japan and the Japanese Empire 3(22) Paul H. Kratoska Part II. Manchuria Labor Policy and the Construction Industry in Manchukuo: Systems of Recruitment, Management, and Control 25(36) David Tucker Part III. North China Northern Chinese Laborers and Manchukuo 61(20) Ju Zhifen Part IV. Korea Japan's Korean Soldiers in the Pacific War 81(9) Utsumi Aiko Korean Forced Labor in Japan's Wartime Empire 90(11) Naitou Hisako Part V. Taiwan Total War, Labor Drafts, and Colonial Administration: Wartime Mobilization in Taiwan, 1936--45 101(28) Hui-yu Caroline Ts'ai Part VI. Indonesia ``Economic Soldiers'' in Java: Indonesian Laborers Mobilized for Agricultural Projects 129(23) Shigeru Sato The Road to Hell: The Construction of a Railway Line in West Java during the Japanese Occupation 152(27) Harry A. Poeze The Heiho during the Japanese Occupation of Indonesia 179(18) Kaori Maekawa Indonesian Romusha and Coolies under Naval Administration: The Eastern Archipelago, 1942--45 197(16) Remco Raben End of a Forgotten Drama: The Reception and Repatriation of Romusha after the Japanese Capitulation 213(24) Henk Hovinga Part VII. Malaya Labor in the Malay Peninsula and Singapore under Japanese Occupation 237(12) Paul H. Kratoska Malayan Labor on the Thailand--Burma Railway 249(18) Nakahara Michiko Part VIII. Philippines Labor Usage and Mobilization during the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines, 1942--45 267(20) Ricardo T. Jose Part IX. Vietnam Working for the Japanese: Working for Vietnamese Independence, 1941--45 287(16) Tran My-Van Part X. Memory and Reconciliation The Origin and Development of Military Sexual Slavery in Imperial Japan 303(23) Chin-Sung Chung History, Memory, Compensation, and Reconciliation: The Abuse of Labor along the Thailand--Burma Railway 326(23) E. Bruce Reynolds Notes 349(72) About the Editor and Contributors 421(4) Index 425