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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.
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.
- Malloryk
Jan 10, 2022 · Infuriated by these abuses, and inspired by MacArthur’s promise to return, Filipinos took up arms. In Legaspi, congressman and Philippine Army reserve lieutenant Wenceslao Q Vinzons organised several hundred men into Vinzons’ Travelling Guerrillas (VTG) and began attacking Japanese troops.
- Military History
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.
The Japanese attack of the Philippines on December 8, 1941, came at a time when the U.S. military buildup had hardly begun. Their advance was rapid; before Christmas, Manila was declared an “open city,” while Quezon and Osmeña were evacuated to MacArthur’s headquarters on Corregidor Island.
May 11, 2021 · Americans remember the liberation of the Philippines beginning with MacArthur’s return in October, 1944. Yet in the two-and-a-half years after the fall of Bataan, Filipino insurgents waged a bloody guerrilla war against the Japanese occupation army.
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.
