I: Japan -- Labor mobilization in Japan and the Japanese empire / Paul H. Kratoska -- II: Manchuria -- Labor policy and the construction industry in Manchukuo : systems of recruitment, management, and control / David Tucker -- III: North China -- Northern Chinese laborers and Manchukuo / Ju Zhifen -- IV: Korea -- Japan's Korean soldiers in the Pacific war / Utsumi Aiko -- Korean forced labor in Japan's wartime empire / Naitou Hisako -- V: Taiwan -- Total war, labor drafts, and colonial administration : wartime mobilization in Taiwan, 1936-45 / Hui-yu Caroline Ts'ai -- VI: Indonesia -- "Economic soldiers" in Java / Shigeru Sato -- The road to hell : the construction of a railway line in west Java during the Japanese occupation / Harry A. Poeze -- The heiho during the Japanese occupation of Indonesia / Kaori Maekawa -- Indonesian ro̿musha and coolies under naval administration / Remco Raben -- End of a forgotten drama : the reception and repatriation of ro̿musha after the Japanese capitulation / Henk Hovinga -- VII: Malaya -- Labor in the Malay Peninsula and Singapore under Japanese occupation / Paul H. Kratoska -- Malayan labor on the Thailand-Burma railway / Nakahara Michiko -- VIII: Philippines -- Labor usage and mobilization during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, 1942-45 / Ricardo T. Jose -- IX: Vietnam -- Working for the Japanese : working for Vietnamese independence, 1941-45 / Tra̿̿n M̿y-Va̿n -- X: Memory and reconciliation -- The origin and development of military sexual slavery in imperial Japan / Chin-Sung Chung -- History, memory, compensation, and reconciliation : the abuse of labor along the Thailand-Burma railway / E. Bruce Reynolds.