Morning market

Morning market

With the Americans, British, and other enemy nationals in the internment camps and the Chinese either in jail or in hiding, the Filipinos took control of trade during the Japanese occupation, keeping the limited goods flowing. Some cashed in on the situation, but most traders engaged in business only to survive.




1942


1930-1949


Manila

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