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Rōmusha (労務者) (compare corvée), is a ****anese
language word for a "paid
conscripted laborer." In English, it
usually refers to non-****anese who were forced...
- However, ****an’s
exploitative economic policies,
forced labor system (
rōmusha), and
strict military control led to
widespread suffering.
Thousands of...
- 1942, the
number reached 10 million. In Java,
between 4 and 10 million
rōmusha (****anese: "manual labourers"), were
forced to work by the ****anese military...
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Imperial ****anese Army to
transport Allied prisoners of war (POWs) and
rōmusha (Asian
forced slave laborers) out of the Philippines, the
Dutch East Indies...
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system of
forced labour, such as the one
involving four to ten
million romusha in Indonesia. A
later UN
report stated that four
million people died in...
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about 1,000
rōmusha (local
forced labourers) and a few
engineers and
technicians (mainly Dutch),
supervised by the ****anese. The
rōmusha working in the...
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between 4 and 10 million
Indonesians were
recruited as
forced labourers (
romusha) on
economic development and
defense projects in Java.
Between 200,000...
- that in Java the ****anese
military forced between four and ten
million rōmusha (****anese: "manual laborers") to work.
About 270 000 of
these Javanese...
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recruited millions of people,
mainly from Java, to be
forced labour called romusha in ****anese. They were
forced to
build railways, airfields, and
other facilities...
- Many
thousands of
Indonesians were
taken away as
forced labourers (
romusha) for ****anese
military projects,
including the Burma-Siam and Saketi-Bayah...
