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      • Issues such as collaboration with the Japanese, Japanese war responsibility, America's failure to defend the Philippines and the appar ently excessive use of force in the liberation campaigns, the truthfulness of war heroics, non-payment of Philippine claims for rehabilitation, or repa rations for damage and loss of life, and non-recognition of Filipino veterans who fought side by side with US soldiers, all tend to make war memories a sensitive topic.
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  2. Jan 1, 2001 · The subject of War and Memory in the Philippines remains a sensitive topic in the Philippines today. Many controversial issues about the Second World War remain subjects of debate, among them collaboration with the Japanese; Japanese war responsibility; American responsibility for the failed defense of the Philippines, and others.

  3. Oct 26, 2020 · This article interprets the monument and the wider Corregidor memoryscape. It examines how the United States, the Philippines and the Second World War are depicted both within and around the memorial and what this suggests about the creation and persistence of colonial memory.

    • Kimberley Lustina Weir
    • 2021
  4. May 27, 2018 · The fort, now in the heart of the Intramuros heritage precinct, was almost destroyed during the Second World War. It was gradually reconstructed in the decades that followed, and formed a centrepiece for the 1998 centennial celebrations of Philippine independence.

    • Robert Mason, Lauren Istvandity
    • 2018
  5. In February of 1945, facing imminent defeat at the hands of the advancing Allies, the remaining Japanese Imperial forces in Manila retreated south, systematically killing unarmed civilians—men, women and children—in their path. For 30 days, they unleashed hell on earth.

  6. Jan 1, 2001 · In the Philippines, while war memorialization was pronounced and served state aims, it was initially undermined by President Ferdinand Marcos, who wanted to bolster his fraudulent war...

  7. Mar 1, 2005 · This paper draws from international relations, comparative politics, and Asian Studies in an effort to compare war memorials and memories in the Philippines and South Korea.

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