Japan's colonial moment in southeast Asia 1942-1945 : the occupiers' experience

Author(s)

• 中野, 聡 ナカノ, サトシ

Bibliographic Information

Japan's colonial moment in southeast Asia 1942-1945 : the occupiers' experience

Nakano Satoshi

（RoutledgeCurzon contemporary Japan series, 76）

Routledge, 2020, c2012

• : pbk

Other Title

Tonan Ajia senryo to Nihonjin : Teikoku Nihon no kaitai

The occupation of Southeast Asia and the Japanese : the dismantling of the Japanese Empire

東南アジア占領と日本人 : 帝国日本の解体

Note

Originally publishd in Japanese by Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo, 2012, under the title: Tonan Ajia senryo to Nihonjin : Teikoku Nihon no kaitai

First published in hardback, 2019

Includes bibliographical references (p. [258]-267) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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 unavailable to non-Japanese readers. It examines how the Japanese imperial adventure in Southeast Asia sped up the collapse of the Japanese Empire as a whole, not only through its ultimate military defeat in the region, but also due to its failure as an occupier from the very beginning. Nakano explains the significance of the Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia as a learning experience for the occupiers, whether soldiers on the frontlines or civilians on the home front. He uses a synthesis, overlay and juxtaposition of a selection of these narratives, to reassemble the narrative as a whole. This brings into focus the outlook of those Japanese who set out for Southeast Asia with the purpose to urge the region's occupied people to collaborate with Japan to transform the region into an integral part of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. Many would eventually discover that what required change was Japan and its whole approach to colonial rule, as was realized so quickly in the postwar era. The original Japanese version was published as Tonan Ajia senryo to Nihonjin: Teikoku Nihon no kaitai [The occupation of Southeast Asia and the Japanese: The dismantling of the Japanese Empire]. Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2012. ISBN: 430922542X.

Table of Contents

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

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Details

• NCID: BC01613604
• ISBN:
  • 9780367484460
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: jpn
• Place of Publication: Abingdon
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 274 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 327.5205909044
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : World War, 1939-1945 -- Southeast Asia
  • LCSH : World War, 1939-1945 -- Occupied territories
  • LCSH : Japan -- Foreign relations -- Southeast Asia
  • LCSH : Southeast Asia -- Foreign relations -- Japan
  • LCSH : Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA71047176