The People-saving Canal Project

It was 1943. Time for Sultan Hamengku Buwono IX to hand over the year's report on agricultural production within the Yogyakarta sultanate to the Japanese occupation government. He did not, however, want to report the real figures.

Japan, already suffering a series of defeats on the battlefield, was intensively recruiting romusha, local people forced into labor for the Japanese military, either in Indonesia or in Thailand or the Philippines. Many

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