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  2. The Japanese occupation of the Philippines (Filipino: Pananakop ng mga Hapones sa Pilipinas; Japanese: 日本のフィリピン占領, romanized: Nihon no Firipin Senryō) occurred between 1942 and 1945, when the Japanese Empire occupied the Commonwealth of the Philippines during World War II.

  3. Manila was occupied by the Japanese on January 2, 1942. MacArthur retreated with his troops to Bataan while the commonwealth government withdrew to Corregidor island before proceeding to the United States. The joint American and Filipino soldiers in Bataan finally surrendered on April 9, 1942.

  4. Jan 10, 2022 · A bomb-damaged government building in Manila during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. It was a reminder to Filipinos as if it were needed of the brutality of Japanese rule. He authorised men like Fort Stotsenburg’s Provost Marshal, Major Claude Thorp, and the Camp John Hay commandant, Lieutenant Colonel John Horan, to organise ...

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  5. It also ended nearly four bitter years of Japanese occupation in the Philippines—a war that shattered the Pearl of the Orient and killed approximately one million civilians. But today not many people know of the tremendous sacrifices of the Filipinos during World War II.

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  6. Cultural exchanges between Japan and the Philippines were far more advanced before the Pacific War than those between Japan and any other Southeast Asian colony. Interest in Japan among young people in the Philippines grew markedly in the late 1930s, and the Commonwealth government encouraged that interest. For certain adventuresome

  7. The book’s eight contributors (seven Japanese and one Filipino) examine the unravelling of this policy in various areas of the Occupation experience, stressing the policy’s contradictory and devastating consequences given the exigencies of war and popular resistance to military occupation.

  8. During the Japanese occupation of the islands in World War II, there was an extensive Philippine resistance movement ( Filipino: Kilusan ng Paglaban sa Pilipinas ), which opposed the Japanese and their collaborators with active underground and guerrilla activity that increased over the years.

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