Journal of Southeast Asian Studies articles from March 1996

Journal of Southeast Asian Studies archives from March 1996

The Indonesian nationalists and the Japanese "liberation" of Indonesia: visions and reactions.(The Japanese Occupation in Southeast Asia)
March 1, 1996... Introduction It is generally assumed that most of the Indonesian population, including the nationalists, resigned themselves passively to the threat of an imminent war with Japan. There were no large-scale preparations on the side of the...

The Japanese military and Indonesian independence.(The Japanese Occupation in Southeast Asia)
March 1, 1996... I ordered the Indonesian leaders to lead this [their] movement more spiritually. Major-General Yamamoto Moichiro(1) This writer, then a 20-year-old former civilian internee in the so-called Tjimahi IV concentration camp in Western Java,...

Caught in the middle: Japanese attitude toward Indonesian independence in 1945.(The Japanese Occupation in Southeast Asia)
March 1, 1996... Introduction On 2 September 1945, when the Japanese delegation signed the document of surrender aboard the Missouri, the Japanese Army, and Navy issued a General Order No. 1, ordering "all military commanders both within Japan and abroad to...

"Japanese time" and the mica mine: occupation experiences in the Central Sulawesi Highlands.(The Japanese Occupation in Southeast Asia)
March 1, 1996... In modern warfare, mica is truly indispensable. Coordination of combatant units necessitates maintenance of intricate communication equipment, in the construction of which high-grade mica is essential.(1) Introduction During the World War II...

World War II and the Japanese in the prewar Philippines.(The Japanese Occupation in Southeast Asia)
March 1, 1996... When World War II reached the Philippines many Japanese residing in this Asian neighbour of Japan had for years been fighting their own little war against what, to them, were anti-Japanese policies of the Commonwealth Government, but from the...

Life in the occupied zone: one Negros planter's experience of war.(The Japanese Occupation in Southeast Asia)
March 1, 1996... Introduction People from the Visayan Island of Negros - Negrenses - who lived through the Second World War take great pride in having established an island-wide resistance against the Japanese. This pride is evidenced by the fact that...

Aurelio Alvero: traitor or patriot? (The Japanese Occupation in Southeast Asia)
March 1, 1996... Historians are traditionally fascinated by "neglected" figures as well as by what some would term "losers". Aurelio Alvero (1913-58) is, in my opinion, one who can be classified in both of these categories. Filipinos today probably have never...

Lt. Shigenobu Mochizuki and the New Philippine Cultural Institute.(The Japanese Occupation in Southeast Asia)
March 1, 1996... Introductory Remarks The Japanese occupation in Southeast Asia produced two types of "war heroes", later called "national heroes": the anti-Japanese guerrillas and the "Japanese collaborators", both of whom contributed to the region's eventual...

The records of the former Japanese army concerning the Japanese occupation of the Philippines.(The Japanese Occupation in Southeast Asia)
March 1, 1996... The primary problem any researcher is going to encounter in conducting research on the Japanese occupation of the Philippines is the lack and/or inaccessibility of the records of the former Japanese army. This is mainly due to the fact that many...

Britain, Portugal and East Timor in 1941.(The Japanese Occupation in Southeast Asia)
March 1, 1996... Though it is commonly conceived that World War II began in September 1939, more than two years passed before the European war that then began became a world war. The two were indeed connected. The European war intensified and expanded the...

Japan's intentions for it Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere as indicated in its policy plans for Thailand.(The Japanese Occupation in Southeast Asia)
March 1, 1996... A major pronouncement of the Japanese during their war against the western colonial powers was that they were endeavouring to create a new order in East Asia. The culmination of this new order was to be the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere....

Phra Sarasas: rebel with many causes.(The Japanese Occupation in Southeast Asia)
March 1, 1996... Let me pride myself for being the first Thai in various kinds of ventures, good and bad.... Phra Sarasas, Preface to Outlaws Against Outlawries (1960) Phra Sarasas has been and remains an enigmatic, mysterious figure in modern Thai history,...

Thai wartime leadership reconsidered: Phibun and Pridi.(The Japanese Occupation in Southeast Asia)
March 1, 1996... Thai politics from 1938 to 1957 were dominated by two leading personalities - Field Marshal Phibunsongkhram and Pridi Phanomyong - the one Prime Minister until 1944, the other the acknowledged leader of the liberal and civilian wing of the...

Japan and Vietnam's Caodaists: a wartime relationship (1939-45).(The Japanese Occupation in Southeast Asia)
March 1, 1996... The period surrounding World War Two initiated a new chapter in Vietnamese history with Japan playing a considerable part, directly and indirectly, in shaping political, economic and social developments within Vietnam. This paper describes the...

The Forgotten Army: India's Armed Struggle for Independence, 1942-1948.
March 1, 1996... This is a book about the Indian National Army (INA), a military force created in Japanese-occupied territories in Southeast Asia during World War II which had at its core a substantial number of Indian soldiers posted to Malaya shortly before the...

Japanese Cultural Policies in Southeast Asia During World War 2.
March 1, 1996... This anthology is a collection of five essays, four of which were presented at the 1989 conference of the Association for Asian Studies as a panel on Japanese cultural policies in Southeast Asia during World War 2. These four essays include...

Hujan Panas Bawa Bencana (Hot Rain Brings Tragedy).
March 1, 1996... Before the Second World War, Peter Dobree was a young official working with the Malayan Department of Agriculture. As a member of the Malayan Volunteers, he took part in fighting in the peninsula, and was in Singapore when the British surrender...

Penaklukan Jepun: Suka Duka di Georgetown (The Japanese Conquest: Pleasures and Sorrow in Georgetown).
March 1, 1996... This book reproduces portions of a journal kept in Penang during the Japanese occupation of Malaya by Captain Baba Ahmed bin Ahmed (b. 1888, d. 1967), a man whose full given name was Shaik Hayati Meah bin Shaik Ahmed Meah. The names suggest...

Singapore: The Pregnable Fortress; A Study of Deception, Discord and Desertion.
March 1, 1996... The fall of Singapore in February 1942 to the Imperial Japanese Army has been described in more than two dozen studies of the campaign which led to what nearly all agree was the worst humiliation in the history of the British Army. They range in...

Sunset of the Raj: Fall of Singapore 1942.
March 1, 1996... In the preface on page xviii, this book promises "an account of the events in Malaya in two short months in 1941-42 and of the background and principal personalities involved". Cecil Lee then warns his reader "I have tried not to intrude my own...

Thailand and Japan's Southern Advance: 1940-1945.
March 1, 1996... The last few years have seen, in addition to Sirin Phathanothai's Dragon's Pearl on a later period, a small flood of important English-language books focused on 1930s Thailand, Scot Barme's Luang Wichit Wathakan and the Creation of a Thai...

Crisis: The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor and Southeast Asia.
March 1, 1996... A long-time resident of Honolulu, Allan Beekman remembers watching Japanese aircraft bomb targets on Oahu that fateful Sunday morning in December 1941. A half century's fascination with the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the...