Hirohito’s Slaves

On 3 September 1939, when war with Germany broke out, despite no conscription, around 65,000 men and women from Ulster volunteered to join the British forces. On 7 December 1942 the Japanese attacked the British Colonies of Hong Kong, Malaya and Singapore. Within three months they had taken over almost all of the Far East. Some 730 men women and children with Ulster origins, including the authors father, were in the Far East at that time. One in three were to die over the following three and a