To what extent did Imperial Japan use slave labor?

Wendigo

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How large/extensive was the slave labor system in Imperial Japan during WW2?

How comparable was it to the system in Nazi Germany?

How were the laborers treated?

What did the mortality rate look like?
 
Jason often forced Chinese and Korean men to work on its "projects". They weren't fed a lot, had an overseer, and to keep them subdued, they were fed opiates.

Sounds harsh? More than 10 million Chinese civilians were forced into labor during World War II. The U.S. Library of Congress estimates that in Java, between 4 and 10 million manual laborers were forced into work. 670,000 Koreans were mobilized by the National Mobilization Law between 1944 and 1945, and another 670,000 were taken to Japan. As many as 810,000 Korean forced laborers died in Korea and Manchuria.

Not to mention the comfort women. As many as 200,000 women (mostly Chinese and Korean, but including most Japanese occupied countries) were forced into prostitution for the "primal needs" of the Japanese military.

It was veryyyy expansive.
 
not to mention the Allied POWs who were used for slave labor in coal mines, and the infamous Thai-Burma RR among other projects
 
And the long-term impact was that most of these Asian nations hated Japan, especially when Japan tried saying that the Treaty of San Francisco meant that they had already apologized - they basically refused to apologize. Even then, they tried buying off the comfort women by paying them - but only in Korea. It's a really thorny issue in Asia.
 
And the long-term impact was that most of these Asian nations hated Japan, especially when Japan tried saying that the Treaty of San Francisco meant that they had already apologized - they basically refused to apologize. Even then, they tried buying off the comfort women by paying them - but only in Korea. It's a really thorny issue in Asia.

And even then, Koreans got really pissed off over the paying off...
 
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