1st Edition

Japan’s Colonial Moment in Southeast Asia 1942-1945 The Occupiers’ Experience

By Nakano Satoshi Copyright 2018
288 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

The first-ever attempt to paint a full-scale portrait of the Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia during the Asia-Pacific War (1942–5). This book draws on the huge body of available narrative—military documents, bureaucratic records and personal accounts of combatants and civilians, including diaries, memoirs and collected correspondence—most of which have previously been either unknown or... Read more

Acknowledgements

Glossary

List of Policy Documents

1. Introduction: The Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia as a Historical Experience

2. Chapter Two: The Occupation of Southeast Asia: Assertions and The Real World

3. Chapter Three: The Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere: Ambition and Reality

4. Chapter Four: "Independence" Under Japan

5. Chapter Five: Southeast Asia and The Collapse of The Empire Of Japan

Reference

Index

Biography

Nakano Satoshi is Professor of History of the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan.