By Brandon Palmer
ISBN-10: 0295992573
ISBN-13: 9780295992570
Fighting for the Enemy explores the participation of Koreans within the eastern army and assisting industries ahead of and through global warfare II, first via voluntary enlistment and finally via conscription. opposite to well known trust between Korean nationalists, this involvement was once no longer fullyyt coerced. Brandon Palmer examines this ambiguous scenario within the context of Japan's long term colonial attempt to assimilate Koreans into eastern sociopolitical lifestyles and files the numerous methods Koreans-short of brazenly resisting-avoided complete cooperation with eastern warfare efforts.
Much media recognition has been given to Japan's exploitation of "comfort girls" in Korea and somewhere else in East Asia in the course of the colonial interval, yet, formerly, there was no prolonged, target research of the exploitation of the millions of younger Korean males who served in Japan's army and auxiliary occupations.
Brandon Palmer is affiliate professor of background at Carolina Coastal collage in Conway, South Carolina.
"Skillfully synthesizes a wide physique of fabric in either jap and Korean, together with respectable govt files, own histories, and former scholarly reviews to supply a very good research of Japan's wartime mobilization of the Korean inhabitants that frequently demanding situations traditional scholarly perspectives." -Carter J. Eckert, Harvard college
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Without the use of foreign labor, the agricultural and industrial production of Germany would have faced severe labor shortages by 1942. 88 Later, the Third Reich imported Russians, French, Danes, and other nationalities. The Nazis also forced 800,000 Hungarians to build military fortifications. 1 million total) of the German workforce. However, the Nazi economy suffered for want of skilled labor. Nazi and Japanese mobilization of the manpower in conquered terri- 39 40 | CHAPTER 1 tories differed in several ways.
However, this power was far from hegemonic. The colonial regime focused on regulating the social, economic, and political nexus of power, but had done little to fashion the Korean people into willing warriors or capable industrial laborers. As the war with China, and later with the Allies, expanded, the central government realized that the Korean population was not prepared for wartime mobilization. To prepare and engage Koreans in the war effort, Japanese authorities moved cautiously, shrouding new policies in propaganda and a veneer of legalism.
Most early colonial mobilization of native troops was undertaken by joint-stock trading companies. For example, the British East India Company employed Indian sepoy as early as the 1740s. By 1800 the company employed over 100,000 sepoy, and by the 1840s had close to 200,000 sepoy in the Indian presidency armies. Most soldiers originated from the Bengal and Madras regions. 55 In fact, the British conquest of India was largely accomplished by Indian regiments. 56 Britain was shaken by the mutiny but established firmer control over India through fundamental changes to their colonial practices.
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