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page 1Forced labour in Japan
Hashima Island
abandoned island lying about 15 kilometres (9 miles) from the city of Nagasaki, in southern Japan. Abandoned concrete buildings and the surrounding sea wall.
Sado Island
Japanese island
Sado mine
gold and silver mine on the island of Sado in Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Miike coal mine
coal mine in Fukuoka, Japan

rōmusha
thumb|Romusha commemorative image on the public board of Indonesian independence in 1985
(compare corvée), is a Japanese language word for a "paid conscripted laborer." In English, it usually refers to non-Japanese who were forced to work for the Japanese military during World War II. The U.S. Library of Congress estimates that in Java, between 4 and 10 million rōmushas were forced to work (often at low pay) by the Japanese military during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) during World War II, many of whom experienced harsh conditions and either died or were str
Korean Women's Volunteer Labor Corps
Korean part of the Women's Volunteer Corps