Conscripted Labor in Japan

By Donald Smith, University of Washington, 27 September 1998

The most detailed published account in English of Korean forced labor is probably Michael Weiner,_Race and Migration in Imperial Japan_ $B!! (B(London and New York: Routledge, 1994), pp. 187-208, but the following works also contain at least fragmentary information. The literature on this topic in Korean and Japanese is, of course, voluminous. At the risk of self-promotion, I will add that my forthcoming dissertation on Korean coal mining labor in Japan contains two chapters on forced wartime labor.

W. Donald Smith
University of Washington

Cohen, Jerome B. _Japan's Economy in War and Reconstruction._ Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1949.

Cook, Haruko Taya and Theodore F. _Japan at War: an Oral History._ New York: The New Press, 1992.

De Vos, George, and Changsoo Lee, eds. _Koreans in Japan: Ethnic Conflict and Accommodation._ (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1981).

Dower, John.. _Japan in War & Peace._ New York: The New Press, 1993.

--------. _War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War._ New York: Pantheon, 1986.

Mitchell, Richard H. _The Korean Minority in Japan._ Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1967.

Tong, Kurt W. Korea's Forgotten Atomic Bomb Victims. _Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars,_ Vol. 23, No. 1 (1991), p. 31-37.

Wagner, Edward W. _The Korean Minority in Japan, 1904-1950. _ New York: International Secretariat, Institute of Pacific Relations, 1951