Human Bibingka: Leyteños under Japanese Rule (1942-1944) (original) (raw)

Countryside in the Rising Sun: An Account of the Japanese Occupation During World War 2

Within Anthropology, what allows the individual to connect their story to the story of their culture, to allow them to share in their people’s unique shared experience? In this paper, I will be telling the story of Nene, my grandmother, as she experienced the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War 2 (1941-1945) in the small town of Turo in Bocaue, Bulacan. I will narrate the tale of her experiences and that of her family as they survived the occupation of the Japanese as it occurred in Philippine history. Through this, a more intimate record of Philippine history is what I hope could be achieved.

GUERRILLA MOVEMENT IN THE LENSES OF COMMON FOLKS: SOCIAL HISTORY NARRATIVES OF WORLD WAR II IN THE PACIFIC CIRCA 1942-1945

Historical ( WW2 in the Phils.), 2022

We are now almost eighty (80) years in commemoration of the Second World War. In the last war, the Philippines had been on the frontline of the PacificWar.The victory of the war had been contributed by the regular soldiers and the guerrilla movement which resulted in the defeat of the Japanese Imperial Forces. The paper delves into the exploits of the guerrilla movement either recognized or not and the milieu of the era was vividly accounted for in this paper. Their defense of the land including its untold narratives in the towns of Surigao, Tandag, Bacuag, and the village of Claver of the Surigao province which the paper provided a historical construct circa 1942-1945.

Methods to Avoid Speaking the Unspeakable: Carmen Guerrero Nakpil, the Death of Manila, and Post-World War II Filipino Memory and Mourning

Hitotsubashi Journal of Social Studies, 2017

Battle for Manila in February to March 1945, which was once given considerable publicity in the Japanese War Crimes Trials (1946-1948), has long been the subject of amnesia in Japan, the United States, and even in the Philippines. The 50th year's anniversary (1995) marked the quiet beginning of protest against forgetting with the erection of a small memorial by the civic group Memorare Manila 1945. Since then, both the media and scholars have begun to give more attention to the Battle and its historical significance with an increasing number of publications reviving memories of the city's "death", i.e. Japanese atrocities, U.S. shelling, and all the sufferings of the civilians under siege. Will it be another "Rape of Nanking" for Japan in the near future? With this big question in the author’s mind, this paper will first focus on an 1976 essay contributed by Carmen Guerrero Nakpil, a woman journalist from the Guerrero clan of Ermita, to a coffee table book titled "Manila" co-authored by an actress-photographer Gina Lollobrigida who was commissioned to shoot euphoric photographs of the Philippines under Marcos dictatorship for the purpose of tourist promotion. Strangely enough, Nakpil pours All-American place names in her celebration of the city’s modern urban landscape while hardly mentioning Manila's real local place names including Ermita, a major tourist attraction of the 1970s and the place where she was born and grew up in the 1920s to the 1930s. Examining (1) Nakpil's recent autobiographies published in 2006 and 2007, which so vividly and tenderly depicted her days in prewar Ermita as well as postwar manic and frenzy days of a widowed journalist; (2) Benedict Anderson's anatomy of Nakpil's sibling Leon Ma. Guerrero's translation of Nori Me Tangere (by Jose Rizal) in 1961, as well as; (3) Nakpil's one of well known columns in 1967 which spoke out about her ordeal in the Battle for Manila, February 1945, the paper will discuss the "post war history" of a major object-loss, or PTSD as experienced by Filipino elites such as Nakpil who suffered so much during the genocidal experiences under the battle which slaughtered hundred thousands civilians by Japanese atrocities, massacres, and U.S. indiscriminate shelling.

Chapter 55. From " Haponesa " to " Issei " : Ethnicized Identities of Okinawan War Brides in Post-War Philippines

This paper looks at these so-called " war brides " (Sensou hanayome) in the postwar Philippines, and their experiences upon migration to the Philippines in the 1950s to the 1960s. More specifically, I examine how ethnicity has become stigmatized in Philippine society of that time due mainly to wartime experiences. I also explore their how they lived their lives in varied degrees of discrimination, inclusion and exclusion. I particularly use the ascribed ethnic marker " Haponesa " or Japanese woman, in the Filipino vernacular, to illustrate how ethnicity has been stigmatized. I utilize life stories of those women who lived decades of their lives in the Philippines. While several of them choose to go back to Okinawa, many of them made the Philippines their home. Semi-structured interviews were done in 2009 and 2012, both in Okinawa and in the Philippines. I also use data I gathered in late 2011 to 2013, when I was doing on-and-off fieldwork in Okinawa.