Author: Bob Reece
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Author: Ooi Keat Gin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113696309X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291

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The Japanese occupation of both British Borneo – Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo – and Dutch Borneo in 1941 to 1945 is a much understudied subject. Of particular interest is the occupation of Dutch Borneo, governed by the Imperial Japanese Navy that had long-term plans for ‘permanent possession’. This book surveys Borneo under Western colonialism, examines pre-war Japanese interests in Borneo, and analyses the Japanese military invasion and occupation. It goes on to consider the nature of Japanese rule in Borneo, contrasting the different regimes of the Imperial Japanese Army, which ruled the north, and the Navy. A wide range of issues are discussed, including the incorporation of the economy in the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere and the effects of this on Borneo’s economy. The book also covers issues such as the relationship with the various indigenous inhabitants, with Islam and the Muslim community, and the Chinese, as well as topics of acculturation and propaganda, and major uprisings and mass executions. It examines the impact of the wartime conditions and policies on the local multiethnic peoples and their responses, providing an invaluable contribution to the greater understanding of the significance of the wartime Japanese occupation in the historical development of Borneo.

Author: Paul H. Kratoska
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824818890
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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Japan attacked British-ruled Malaya on 8 December 1941 as part of a wave of military actions that toppled the British, Dutch and American colonial regimes in Southeast Asia. Within seventy days, the conquest of Malaya was complete, and British forces in Singapore surrendered on 15 February 1942. The three and a half years of Japanese rule are generally considered to mark a profound transition in the history of the Malay peninsula, but little is known about this period. This book uses the limited administrative papers that survived in Malaya, oral sources, and accounts written by Japanese officers involved in the Malayan campaign to flesh out the story.

Author: Christine de Matos
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137408111
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Japan as the Occupier and the Occupied examines transwar political, military and social transitions in Japan and various territories that it controlled, including Korea, Borneo, Singapore, Manchuria and China, before and after August 1945. This approach allows a more nuanced understanding of Japan's role as occupier and occupied to emerge.

Author: Paul H. Kratoska
Publisher: NUS Press
ISBN: 997169638X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Japanese forces invaded Malaya on 8 December 1941 and British forces surrendered in Singapore 70 days later. Japan would rule the territory for the next 3½ years. Early efforts to maintain pre-war standards of comfort gave way to a grim struggle for survival as the vibrant economy ground to a halt and residents struggled to deal with unemployment, shortages of consumer goods, sharp price rises, a thriving black market and widespread corruption. People were hungry, dressed in rags, and falling victim to treatable diseases for which medicines were unavailable, and there was little reason to hope for better in the future. Using surviving administrative papers, oral materials, intelligence reports and post-war accounts by Japanese officers, this book presents a picture of life in occupied Malaya and Singapore. It shows the impact of war and occupation on a non-belligerent population, and creates a new understanding of the changes and the continuities that underlay the post-war economy and society. The book was first published in 1998 and is now re-issued in new edition that incorporates information from newly translated Japanese documents and other recent discoveries.

Author: Patricia Pui Huen Lim
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN: 9789812300379
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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This volume consists of selected papers presented at a workshop on War and Memory in Malaysia and Singapore to commemorate the 50th anniversary of World War II, plus two additional papers. The papers reveal the importance of oral history where documentary records are lacking.

Author: Paul H. Kratoska
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317476425
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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During the Pacific War the Japanese government used a wide range of methods to recruit workers for construction projects throughout the occupied territories. Mistreatment of workers was a major grievance, both in widely publicized cases such as the use of prisoners of war and forced Asian labor to construct the Thailand-Burma "Death" Railway, and in a very large number of smaller projects. In this book an international group of specialists on the Occupation period examine the labor needs and the recruitment and use of workers (whether forced, military, or otherwise) throughout the Japanese empire. This is the first study to look at Japanese labor policies comparatively across all the occupied territories of Asia during the war years. It also provides a graphic context for examining Japanese colonialism and relations between the Japanese and the people living in the various occupied territories.

Author: Paul H. Kratoska
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113612506X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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The Japanese invasion and occupation of southeast Asia provided opportunities for the peoples of the region to pursue a wide range of agendas that had little to do with the larger issues which drove the conflict between Japan and the allies. This book explores how the occupation affected various minority groups in the region. It shows, for example, how in some areas of Burma the withdrawal of established authority led to widespread communal violence; how the Indian and Chinese populations of Malaya and Thailand had extensive and often unpleasant interactions with the Japanese; and how in Java the Chinese population fared much better.

Author: Ooi Keat Gin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429773463
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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This book presents a great deal of new research findings on the history of Borneo, the history of Sulawesi and the interrelationship between the two islands. Some specific chapters focus on empires and colonizers, including the activities of James Brooke in Sulawesi, of Chinese mining communities in Borneo and of the the quisling issue in immediate post-war Sarawak. Other chapters consider indigenous peoples and how different regimes have handled them. The book is published in honour of Victor T. King, a leading scholar in the field of Southeast Asian studies, and a final chapter discusses his contribution to scholarship, in particular his views on how area studies should be approached, and the implications of this for future research.

Author: Uqbah Iqbal
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3739623535
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 33

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Pada bulan November 1972, kerajaan Thailand dan ahli-ahli perniagaan terkemuka melahirkan kebimbangan terhadap laporan kempen anti-Jepun di Thailand dan mereka menyatakan ia pasti akan membawa perubahan dalam penembusan ekonomi Jepun di negara ini (The Straits Times, 17 November 1972). Pada bulan Mac 1974, jurucakap Kementerian Luar Jepun menyatakan Jepun telah meminta kerajaan Thailand untuk menubuhkan satu jawatankuasa bersama bagi menangani masalah yang ditimbulkan oleh pelaburan Jepun di Thailand (New Nation, 16 Mac 1974). Pada bulan Oktober 1975, Perdana Menteri Thailand, Kukrit Pramoj mengkritik Jepun kerana melabur di Thailand disebabkan oleh tenaga buruh murah di negara ini. Kerajaan Thailand melihat ia sebagai motif pelaburan yang salah (New Nation, 4 Oktober 1975).