A Ohio University Press Book
By Anthony Reid
Edited by Oki Akira
Although the wartime Japanese military administration of Indonesia was critical to the making of modern Indonesia, it remains shrouded in mystery, in part because of the systematic destruction of records following the Japanese surrender. These excerpts from personal memoirs of individual Japanese soldiers and administrators provide unique glimpses of the occupation—from the Japanese landing on Java and the Dutch surrender, to the independence proclamation in Jakarta, to the violence in Surabaya following the Japanese surrender. Through the eyes of Japanese at all levels of responsibility, we see the internal Indonesian turmoil, the struggle toward an independence movement, and the efforts of some Japanese to promote independence, despite the policies of imperial headquarters.
Not only does this collection illuminate modern Indonesian history, it provides students of Japanese history with a feeling for the variety of Japanese responses to the war effort. The Japanese Experience in Indonesia will therefore be of interest to Southeast and East Asian historians and political scientists, as well as to those with a more general interest in World War II.
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Research in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series, № 72
Paperback
978-0-89680-132-5
Retail price: $36.95,
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Release date: September 1986
424 pages
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5¼ × 8¼ in.
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Electronic
978-0-89680-437-1
Release date: September 1986
424 pages
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Japan and Southeast Asia in the Colonial and Postcolonial World
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Edited by Paul H. Kratoska
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Edited by Lizelot Stout van Balgooy
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Translation by Lizelot Stout van Balgooy
The memoirs of Marguérite Schenkhuizen provide an overview of practically the whole of the twentieth century as experienced by persons of mixed Dutch and Indonesian ancestry who lived in the former Dutch East Indies. The memoirs provide vignettes of Indonesian life, both rural and urban, as seen through the eyes of the author first as a girl, then as a wife separated from her husband during the Japanese occupation, finally as an immigrant to the United States after World War II.This
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