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Japanise Occupation

The Japanese occupied the Philippines from 1941 to 1945. A guerrilla resistance movement controlled 60% of the country. The Filipinos remained loyal to the US due to the promise of independence and because the Japanese forced many into labor and put young women into brothels. The Japanese invaded hours after attacking Pearl Harbor and overwhelmed Filipino and US forces, who withdrew to Bataan and Corregidor. Under Japanese rule, Filipinos faced curfews, censorship, and persecution. Over a million Filipinos died during the brutal occupation.

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Japanise Occupation

The Japanese occupied the Philippines from 1941 to 1945. A guerrilla resistance movement controlled 60% of the country. The Filipinos remained loyal to the US due to the promise of independence and because the Japanese forced many into labor and put young women into brothels. The Japanese invaded hours after attacking Pearl Harbor and overwhelmed Filipino and US forces, who withdrew to Bataan and Corregidor. Under Japanese rule, Filipinos faced curfews, censorship, and persecution. Over a million Filipinos died during the brutal occupation.

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JAPANESE

OCCUPATION
INTRODUCTION
Japan occupied the Philippines for over three years, until the
surrender of Japan. A highly effective guerrilla campaign by
Philippine resistance forces controlled sixty percent of the
islands, mostly jungle and mountain areas. MacArthur
supplied them by submarine, and sent reinforcements and
officers. Filipinos remained loyal to the United States, partly
because of the American guarantee of independence, and also
because the Japanese had pressed large numbers of Filipinos
into work details and even put young Filipino women into
brothels.
HOURS AFTER PEARL HARBOR
 War came unexpectedly to the Philippines.
Japan opened a surprise attack on the Philippines on
December 8, 1941, when Japan attacked without warning,
just ten hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
 Japanese troops attacked the islands in many places and
launched a pincer drive on Manila.
 Aerial bombardment was followed by landings of ground
troops in Luzon.
The defending Philippine and United States troops
were under the command of General Douglas
MacArthur.

Under the pressure of superior numbers, the defending


forces (about 80,000 troops, four fifths of them
Filipinos) withdrew to the Bataan Peninsula and to the
island of Corregidor at the entrance to Manila Bay
where they entrenched and tried to hold until the arrival
of reinforcements.
JAPANESE RULES FOR FILIPINOS (1941-1945)
1. Salute to the Japanese soldiers when you meet them.
2. The Japanese flag should be displayed at every house's door.
3. Everybody must put the sun-rise armband on the left arm.
4. Everybody should have the certificate of residence.
5. Wherever you see Japanese soldiers you must welcome them and
not escape from them. The escaper will be considered as the
enemy.
6. Unless you do not tell false prices you will be paid reasonable.
THE JAPANESE INFLUENCE
During the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during
World War II, the Japanese influenced the government in
the Philippines by enforcing a strict curfew, adding
Japanese currency, instituting a military government and
reducing neighborhood government systems by half. The
occupation also cost the lives of over a million people in
the Philippines.
THE LIVES OF THE FILIPINOS DURING
THE OCCUPATION
During the occupation of the Japanese in the Philippines, they ran the
Philippines with an iron hand. They instilled fear declared martial law.
They imposed curfews, they ordered that anyone who opposes them
or even those who are just accused of going against the Japanese were
punished and killed.
Singing of the national anthem and raising of the national flag was
prohibited.
Use of radios and transmitters was also prohibited. Political parties,
elections, and public assemblies were put to a halt.
 School, printing presses, telegraph, and radio stations were closed
down. Everything was controlled by the Japanese.
GREATER EAST ASIA CO-PROSPERITY SPHERE
It was an imperialist propaganda concept created and promulgated
for occupied Asian populations during the first third of the Shōwa
era by the government and military of the Empire of Japan.
It extended greater than East Asia and promoted the cultural and
economic unity of Northeast Asians, Southeast Asians, and
Oceanians.
It also declared the intention to create a self-sufficient "bloc of
Asian nations led by the Japanese and free of Western powers".
It was announced in a radio address entitled "The International
Situation and Japan's Position" by Foreign Minister Hachirō Arita
on June 29, 1940.
THE JAPANESE PROPAGANDA
Japanese propaganda during World War II was designed to assist the
ruling government of Japan during that time.
Many of its elements were continuous with pre-war elements of
statism in Shōwa Japan, including the principles of kokutai, hakkō
ichiu, and bushido.
 New forms of propaganda were developed to persuade occupied
countries of the benefits of the Greater Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, to
undermine American troops' morale, to counteract claims of Japanese
atrocities, and to present the war to the Japanese people as victorious.
 It started with the Second Sino-Japanese War, which merged into
World War II. It used a large variety of media to send its messages.

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