Forced labour in Japan

abandoned island lying about 15 kilometres (9 miles) from the city of Nagasaki, in southern Japan. Abandoned concrete buildings and the surrounding sea wall.

Japanese island

gold and silver mine on the island of Sado in Niigata Prefecture, Japan

coal mine in Fukuoka, Japan

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 part of the Women's Volunteer Corps