Beyond the bridge on the river kwai: Labor mobilization in the greater East Asia co-prosperity sphere

International Labor and Working-Class History

Volumn , Issue 58, 2000, Pages 219-238

  Smith, W Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 0034559954     PISSN: 01475479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0147547900003689     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. For recent works in English on Korean labor in interwar Japan, see William Donald Smith, "Ethnicity, Class and Gender in the Mines: Korean Workers in Japan's Chikuhō Coal Field, 1917-1945" (Ph.D. diss., University of Washington, 1999); Michael Weiner, The Origins of the Korean Community in Japan: 1910-1923 (Atlantic Highlands, NJ, 1989); and Michael Weiner, Race and Migration in Imperial Japan (New York, 1994).
2. For recent works in English on Korean labor in interwar Japan, see William Donald Smith, "Ethnicity, Class and Gender in the Mines: Korean Workers in Japan's Chikuhō Coal Field, 1917-1945" (Ph.D. diss., University of Washington, 1999); Michael Weiner, The Origins of the Korean Community in Japan: 1910-1923 (Atlantic Highlands, NJ, 1989); and Michael Weiner, Race and Migration in Imperial Japan (New York, 1994).
3. For recent works in English on Korean labor in interwar Japan, see William Donald Smith, "Ethnicity, Class and Gender in the Mines: Korean Workers in Japan's Chikuhō Coal Field, 1917-1945" (Ph.D. diss., University of Washington, 1999); Michael Weiner, The Origins of the Korean Community in Japan: 1910-1923 (Atlantic Highlands, NJ, 1989); and Michael Weiner, Race and Migration in Imperial Japan (New York, 1994).
4. The Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere, first proclaimed in August 1940, was envisioned as a self-sufficient regional economy under Japanese leadership. It was initially projected to include Japan (including its Korean and Taiwanese colonies), China, Manchuria, and the French, Dutch, and British colonies in Southeast Asia, while some ambitious planners saw India, Australia, and New Zealand as future members. For a useful overview, see John H. Boyle, "Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere," in Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan, Vol. 3 (New York, 1983), 60-62.
5. Kitagawa Kenzō, Kokumin sōdōin no jidai (Tokyo, 1989); and Michael A. Barnhart, Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919-1941 (Ithaca, 1987), especially 105-106.
6. Kitagawa Kenzō, Kokumin sōdōin no jidai (Tokyo, 1989); and Michael A. Barnhart, Japan Prepares for Total War: The Search for Economic Security, 1919-1941 (Ithaca, 1987), especially 105-106.
7. Janet Hunter, "An Absence of Change: Women in the Japanese Labour Force, 1937-1945," in Conflict and Amity in East Asia: Essays in Honour of Ian Nish, ed. T. G. Fraser and Peter Lowe (London, 1992), 61.
8. Thomas R. H. Havens, Valley of Darkness: The Japanese People and World War Two (London, 1986), 92.
9. Havens, Valley of Darkness, 92.