Did Japanese Atrocities in the Philippines Have an Impact on the Uprising of the Philippine Guerrillas Movement After the American/Filipino Defeat in 1942?
Extended Essay:
Did Japanese Atrocities in the Philippines have an impact on the uprising of the Philippine Guerrillas Movement after the American/Filipino defeat in 1942?
Subject: History
Candidate Number: 004812-013
Candidate Name: Armand Mendoza
Word Count: 3,971
Abstract
This essay focuses on attrocities commited by the Imperial Japanese Army during their occupation of the Philippines and the ramifications of these actions on the Guerilla movement. The Japanese occupied the Philippines from 1942 to 1945 during which time they committed countless attrocities against Filipino combatants and civilians alike. In World War II, there were certain milestones in Philippine history such as the Bataan Death March and other transgressions towards the local populus that are obscured to many people even today. Being a Filipino and having a grandfather who was deeply involved during the Japanese occupation in Zambales, Philippines during World War II, I felt compelled to investigate this period of Philippine History. I scrutinized a variety of sources to help better my understanding of Philippine World War II history, and focused my research question which asks, “Did Japanese Atrocities in the Philippines have an impact on the uprising of the Philippine Guerrillas Movement after the American/Filipino defeat in 1942?” In researching this topic I found many different resources, both primary and secondary, such as personal interviews, books in university libraries, museums, and online, with the majority being personal accounts of World War II veterans compiled into a novel. Living and growing up in the Philippines was also an advantage as visiting the actual site of the Bataan Death March, reading newspapers in museums written in Filipino, and interviewing Filipino war veterans in my native tongue was a much more feasible task. I hope this paper will give light to the misconduct of the Imperial Japanese Army to some extent, and acknowledge the subsequent
Did Japanese Atrocities in the Philippines have an impact on the uprising of the Philippine Guerrillas Movement after the American/Filipino defeat in 1942?
Subject: History
Candidate Number: 004812-013
Candidate Name: Armand Mendoza
Word Count: 3,971
Abstract
This essay focuses on attrocities commited by the Imperial Japanese Army during their occupation of the Philippines and the ramifications of these actions on the Guerilla movement. The Japanese occupied the Philippines from 1942 to 1945 during which time they committed countless attrocities against Filipino combatants and civilians alike. In World War II, there were certain milestones in Philippine history such as the Bataan Death March and other transgressions towards the local populus that are obscured to many people even today. Being a Filipino and having a grandfather who was deeply involved during the Japanese occupation in Zambales, Philippines during World War II, I felt compelled to investigate this period of Philippine History. I scrutinized a variety of sources to help better my understanding of Philippine World War II history, and focused my research question which asks, “Did Japanese Atrocities in the Philippines have an impact on the uprising of the Philippine Guerrillas Movement after the American/Filipino defeat in 1942?” In researching this topic I found many different resources, both primary and secondary, such as personal interviews, books in university libraries, museums, and online, with the majority being personal accounts of World War II veterans compiled into a novel. Living and growing up in the Philippines was also an advantage as visiting the actual site of the Bataan Death March, reading newspapers in museums written in Filipino, and interviewing Filipino war veterans in my native tongue was a much more feasible task. I hope this paper will give light to the misconduct of the Imperial Japanese Army to some extent, and acknowledge the subsequent
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