Manuel L. Quezon was the President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War 2. As the Japanese invasion intensified, Quezon and key members of his cabinet were evacuated to Corregidor by the U.S. military. From there, Quezon was eventually evacuated again to Australia for his safety. Under Japanese rule, a new government was established to rule the Philippines headed by Jorge B. Vargas. The Japanese implemented policies to promote Japanese culture and ideology in the occupied Philippines, including reopening schools with a new pro-Japanese educational curriculum.
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1. Manuel L.
Quezon is the
President of the
Commonwealth.
He is a very sick
man and the
sufferings of the
people increased
his worries which
contributed to his
physical
breakdown.
2. Thousands were affected by the bombings
and bullets so General MacArthur planned to
retreat to Bataan Peninsula to save his army
and to hold back the Japanese.
Quezon was ordered to save his army and take
their military units to Bataan was carried out
masterfully.
December 24, 1941
MacArthur finally informed Quezon that they
will leave for Corregidor.
Quezon called the last meeting of his Cabinet
and informed them about the decision to hole
up in Corregidor.
3. Jose Abad Santos
Sergio Osme単a
Basilio Valdes
Colonel Manuel Nieto
They were chosen to accompany Quezon to
Corregidor.
4. Jose Abad Santos Sergio Osme単a
Colonel Manuel NietoBasilio Valdez
5. As Quezon and his party were supposed to
leave, Japanese bombers were still hitting the
Port Area in Manila.
The S.S. Mayon took Quezons party to
Corregidor.
December 30, 1941
Quezon took his oath as the President of the
Commonwealth.
7. MacArthurs retreat to Bataan was a brilliant
maneuver.
General Masaharu Homma, Japanese
commander-in-chief, failed in his attempt to
encircle the USSAFE.
MacArthur succeeded in keeping his army
intact and well coordinated.
8. The Japanese Imperial Command subjugate
the Philippines as their strategy to
immediately conquest the other parts of Asia.
The heroic defense of the Filipino-American
troops in Bataan irritated the Japanese. As a
result, the Japanese returned to attack but the
Bataan line held heroically.
The Japanese asked the Filipino soldiers to
surrender but they ignored the Japanese
propaganda.
9. Demoralization was the effect to Bataan and it
leads the USSAFE to disintegrate under the
pressure of continued enemy attacks.
Mid-March 1942
Supply of foods become light which leads to
malnutrition.
Diarrhea, malaria, and avitaminosis(lack of
vitamins) are the other problems at that time.
The United States and Great Britain agreed on
the Europe-First Policy.
10. At that time, the men suffering from the rigors
of war began too lose hope because of the
poor supply of medicines.
March 11, 1942
President Roosevelt left for Australia and
become the commander of USSAFE.
February 18, 1942
President Quezon had earlier left for Australia
and picked up by the submarine Swordfish.
12. April 9, 1942
General Edward P. King, commander of the
forces on Bataan, surrendered.
78,000 of General Kings forces were included
in the surrender negotiation while around
2,000 escaped to Corregidor and to the
surrounding provinces.
Kings surrender was an individual and not the
surrender of the entire USSAFE force that
ended the Battle of Bataan which resounded
throughout the world.
13. Those Filipino-American troops who surrender
were forced to march from Bataan to San
Fernando, Pampanga. And those who could
not march because of physical weakness were
shot down. The forced march has been called
Death March.
In Capaz, the prisoners were huddled together
like animals, hungry and sick.
15. Corregidor was subjected to intense fire that
cause the enemy bombings to be continuous
day and night.
May 6, 1942
General Wainwright addressed a message to
General Homma, through the Voice of
Freedom, offering to surrender.
General Wainwright said that only the men
under him will surrender but Homma insisted
on the surrender of all.
The fall of the Philippines was now complete.
16. January 3, 1942
A day after Manila became an occupied city,
General Masaharu Homma, Commander-in-
Chief of the Japanese Imperial Forces,
announced the end of American occupation.
During the first month of Japanese
occupation, the status of the provinces
remained the same as during the
Commonwealth years.
17. January 23, 1942
Homma declared Jorge B. Vargas as the
Chairman of the Executive Commission.
The national government was re-named as the
Central Administrative Organization,
composed of six departments: Interior;
Finance; Justice; Agriculture and Commerce;
Education, Health and Public Welfare; and
Public Works and Communications.
The departments was headed by a
Commissioner.
January 29, 1942
Council of State was created as an advisory body.
18. CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION
Chairman of the Executive Commission
Interior Justice Finance Agriculture and
Commerce
Education, Health
And Public Welfare
Public Works and
Communications
JAPANESE ADVISERS
Council of State
19. February 17, 1942
Military Order No.2; Japanese Educational
Policy
-propagation of Filipino culture
-dissemination of the principle of the Greater
East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
-spiritual rejuvenation of the Filipinos
teaching and propagation of Nippongo
20. -diffusion of vocational and elementary
education
-promotion of love labor
The motive behind the educational policy was
not only to create an atmosphere friendly to
Japanese intentions and war aims, but also to
erase the Western cultural influences.
21. The Japanese Commander-in-Chief instructed
the Commissioner of Education, Health and
Public Welfare to reopen the schools to
support the new educational policy.
Priority was given to the reopening of
elementary schools.
Next to the elementary schools priority was
given to the re-opening of vocational and
normal schools, and those institutions of
higher giving courses.
Japanese military authorities did not reopen
the law degree courses because they thought
lawyers were useless.
22. March 31, 1942
Re-opening of public elementary schools
beginning in June 1942.
The total enrolled in elementary grades as of
March 1943 was 267,977.
October 14, 1943
Proclamation of the Japanese-sponsored
Republic
23. President Jose P. Laurel added the
fundamental principle of militant nationalism
and encouraged the propagation of Tagalog
as the national language by using it as the
official language.
He also required that majority of the
governing board of any school, college or
university be Filipino citizens.