The Japanese

Occupation
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 Lesson Objectives

To be aware and to analyze of the circumstance of the Philippines during

this period
To know the different governments the Philippines underwent during the
Japanese occupation
OBJECTIVES To understand the implications of the different changes the Philippines
experienced (Politically, Socio-culturally, and economically)
To know more uncommon knowledge of the Philippines during these times

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 Timeline of Philippine History (Japanese Era)
Source: Insight guides (n.d.). Philippine History and Timeline. Retrieved from https://www.insightguides.com/destinations/asia-pacific/philippines/historical-highlights

1941
Hours after the bombing at 1943-44
Pearl Harbor, Imperial Japan
launched an attack on another April 1942 Philippines was, once 1945
US base in Asia: the
again, under colonial
Philippines. Fall of Bataan rule: Imperial Japan Liberation of Manila

Manila is declared an Fall of Corregidor Landing of McAurthur and the Philippine Independence
open city; the Japanese battle in Leyte
occupied the country.
May 1942 July 4, 1946
1944
1942

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Japanese Invasion and Filipino Resistance
Source: Mateo, G. (2001). The Philippines: A Story of a Nation.

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on

December 7, 1941, ushered in the Pacific stage
of World War II.

Simultaneously with the bombing of the Pearl

Harbor, the Japanese also bombed American
installations in the Philippines, notably Clark Field
in Pampanga, and Sangley Point in Cavite.

Their aim was to cripple the American forces in

the Pacific in order to pave the way for an easy
Japanese conquest of Southeast Asia.

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Why did Imperial
Japan go to war?

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Motives for Japanese Imperialism

• Historians have cited economic factors as the main

motivation of Japan for going to war.

• With Japan's population soaring, the inadequacy of resources

had become critical.

• The country lacked natural resources, particularly oil.

• Moreover, its land area could not adequately supply its own
agricultural needs, such as rice, sugar, and rubber.

• Likewise, at that time, its industries wanted new markets for its
manufactured goods.

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Motives for Japanese Imperialism

• Asia for Asians

• Japan realized that expansion must be justified and rationalized

to the extent that Asians would accept Japanese rule.

• Japan chose to claim that it was driving out the imperialist whites
from Asia under the slogan "Asia for the Asiatics."

• By the same rationale Japan argued that since its economy was
linked to those of East Asia and Southeast Asia and it could
promote a "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," or a
common prosperity for all economies of Asia.

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Motives for Japanese Imperialism

• For the Philippines

• Part of the Japanese propaganda was also meant to show how

the Filipinos had lost their “Asia-ness” through corruption by
American ways.

• The Japanese presented themselves as restorers of Philippine

lost culture.

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 Japanese Occupation Period

• Japanese Military Administration

• US sovereignty over the Philippines terminated

• Philippine Executive Commission

• Exercised both legislative and executive powers
• Judiciary continued in the same form
• Japanese-sponsored Republic of the Phils.
• Inaugurated with Jose P. Laurel as President
• Of the same character as the Phil. Exec. Comm.
 Jose P. Laurel

• President of the puppet government

Kindly read Dr. Ricardo Jose’s afterword: His Excellency Jose

P. Laurel, President of the Second Philippine Republic:
Speeches, Messages and Statements (1997)