romushaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Japanese 労務者 (rōmusha, “laborer; forced laborer”). Compare Indonesian romusa.

名詞

romusha (plural romusha or romushas)

1. A forced laborer, especially those made to work in the Dutch East Indies under Japanese occupation during the Second World War.
   • 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 272:

     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.

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