The sinking of the Junyo Maru may in fact have been to costliest, in terms of human life, of the war. Here is another vivid example of a maritime disaster of enormous proportion which almost never 'made it' in the history books! The following link gives a good description of the disaster and is an eye opener indeed.

The following references are also of interest:

(108) Japanese Occupation of the Philippines: Leyte, 1941-1945. by Lear, Elmer. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1961

(111) War, Nationalism, and Peasants: Java under the Japanese Occupation. by Sato, Shigeru. Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe, 1994

(116) Burma: Japanese Military Administration. by Trager, Frank N. University of Pennsylvania, 1971

(129) Japanese Warship names - no longer online

(130) Junyo Maru A book. No longer online

(1) The Sinking of the Junyo Maru The largest, yet most forgotten, maritime disaster of WWII (These pages include translated extracts from the book "Eresaluut boven massagraf - Junyo Maru de vergeten scheepsramp" by Ed Melis with W.F. van Wamel'

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