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Book Review
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Frances B. Cogan. Captured: The Japanese Internment of American Civilians in the Philippines, 19411945. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2000. Pp. xi, 357. $39.95.
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During World War II, four U.S. territories were overtaken and occupied by Japanese invasion forces: the islands of Wake and Guam in the central and western Pacific, Attu and Kiska in the Aleutians, and the Philippines, then a U.S. Commonwealth. The Philippines, at the time of the American surrender, was a thriving group of over 7,000 islands with a population of over 30 million, including many American military and civilian personnel who had made their homes there permanently. There were many professional people, teachers, government workers, and business people. The Japanese rounded up all of these people and interned them in various camps around the country. |
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