but all this industrial rationalization depended on japanese companies actually coming there in the first place. and, with strict profit limits, how was kishi to induce the corporations to come? answer: reduce the price of coolie labor from cents a day to free. with free labor, the corporations could make an easy profit. as a result, pretty much all criminals were sent to do forced labor. regular manchurian men were obliged to do forced labor for six months every three years for free. and their women and children were forced to work the family farms by themselves. also : full-scale war with regular china. chinese pows forced into labor camps along with criminals and immigrants. but also a lot of chinese immigrants tricked into coming to the paradise of manchukuo and its abundant, well-paying jobs. japanese recruiting companies are all over the place in north china. among other recruiting tools, they use movies: info-mercials produced by guess who? amakasu masahiko . hes been promoted to minister of public relations. around a million a year. a total of some 4,000,000 by the end of the war. a little less than half are supposed to have survived. according to the confessions of chinese collaborators later arrested by the communist chinese, forced laborers werent allowed to keep anything they had brought with them, including the clothes on their backs. all personal possessions were stolen from them and sold. with nothing left but explsed flesh, the y resorted to cutting holes in the bottom of paper and hemp bags used for mortar and this would be their only protection in the harsh winters. they often worked completely naked in summer, without shoes. workers were fed sorghum and grass for food, and thirteen- and fourteen-hour workdays were standard. 17 december 1937 p. 281 ayukawa yoshisuke nissan becomes mangyou
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