1943 Philippine Constitution

It’s interesting to see how quickly a country’s very own sets of laws and constitutions could change depending on who sits on top and would quite literally dictate the future of the country. With that said, it’s also important to note that such changes and laws could be used against specific persons or groups of people, like how the Japanese used the Constitution to not only gain control of the country but also to make the country be against the USA. Because of that, Filipinos resisted with all their might and set up lots of guerilla activity. These eventually just grew later on, which was crucial to the liberation of the country.

Nevertheless, countless lives were lost and human rights were violated. Countless cases of war crimes –pillages, rape, theft, murder, and other sorts of heinous crimes were committed amidst the Japanese occupation Women were made into “Comfort Women”, within military bases scattered across Japanese reach What marked the beginning of despair for the countless Filipinos was the infamous Bataan Death March, which then sparked the beginning of MacArthur’s famous quote “I Shall Return!”