War, nationalism and peasants : Java under the Japanese occupation, 1942-1945
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書誌事項
War, nationalism and peasants : Java under the Japanese occupation, 1942-1945
（Southeast Asia publications series, no. 26）
Allen & Unwin, c1994
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-230) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The Japanese occupation was a decisive episode in Indonesian history. For Indonesian nationalists it was an opportunity to advance their cause; for many others, particularly peasants, it meant hardship and often death due to unprecedented levels of oppression by the Japanese. Such has been a widely accepted view. Shigeru Sato however, points out many glaring contradictions in this perception and concludes that we have not really understood what the war and occupation meant for the people of Indonesia. He focuses on the events in Java and demonstrates that the above aspects were but tips of an iceberg and beneath them lay enormous human dramas, which cannot be explained simply in terms of nationalism and fascism. Instead of limiting the foci to narrowly defined political and humanitarian issues, this book tries to understand the totality of the society, ranging from the high politics to the landless peasants' daily lives, and from the nitty gritty of local administration in Java to the intellectual climate in Japan from which the Japanese rulers came.
The author has synthesized a wide range of source material, official and non-official, written and oral, in several languages including Indonesian, Japanese, Dutch and English, and presents with striking originality a coherent and comprehensive interpretation of the events in Java during the occupation. He demonstrates that the human dramas were usually not direct products of intentions of any particular groups but were often results of complex interactions of diverse interests of people in all walks of life. Concerning the suffering of the people, he convincingly argues that, while it is true that many Japanese were brutal and exploitative, the more fundamental problem was that they knew little about the land and the people they ruled and consequently their administration caused widespread social and economic disarray which resulted in the tragedy. Due to their lack of knowledge and serious concerns, however, the foreign rulers who were responsible for the tragedy were only vaguely aware of the consequences of their misrule. This study is essential reading for those who seek to understand what the Second World War meant for the people in the areas invaded by the Japanese.
It also bears relevance to the present world in which foreign interferences in all forms takes place ever more frequently. This book should provide a deep insight into possible consequences of such interferences.
目次
- The military administration for total mobilization
- Japanese expansionism and Java
- administration through the indigenous construction of "new Java"
- the peasantry of Java and the military administration
- Javanese villages during the early occupation
- "control" over rice
- labour mobilization and work conditions.
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