[Bommer]

http://www.counterpunch.org/reed02022006.html

In the years after 1939, the historians calculate, the Korean numbers in Japan swelled to over a million -- their figure is 1,120,000 -- although Tokyo's official government number is only 724,287. The miners' task was to descend into difficult seams to dig coal shipped exclusively for military use......Most workers suffered malnutrition, as they received only a handful of rice a month supplemented by inferior cereals. No meat was provided, for what is a more carnivorous people than the Japanese, who to this day prefer fish

[zeestephen]

Bommer - very good link - as a Conservative I would not normally look to a site edited by Alexander Cockburn - the article, however, struck me as basically honest and well researched and well written - extraordinary to think that many of those poor souls were “liberated” by the USA only to spend the rest of their lives in North Korea, or in South Korea, which was a third world impoverished nation well into the 1970’s - thanks again