rōmusha
rōmusha is the alternative form of romusha.
Meaning of romusha
Noun
romusha (plural romusha or romushas)
- A forced laborer, especially one of those made to work in the Dutch East Indies under Japanese occupation during the Second World War.
- Javanese workers were known as romushas (the Japanese translation for the colonial term ‘coolie’) and put to work on Java, its neighbouring islands and across Southeast Asia.2017, Lizzie Oliver, “‘Like Pebbles Stuck in a Sieve’: Reading Romushas in the Second-Generation Photography of Southeast Asian Captivity”, in Journal of War & Culture Studies, volume 10, →DOI, page...
Forms of rōmusha
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- Rōmusha is the alternative form of romusha.
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