In addition to tracing the development of Japan's southward-advance policies from the early 1930s to the outbreak of the "Greater East Asia War" in both government and private sectors, an outstanding feature of this book is that the author has looked into the trends within the na tionalist movement in Indonesia connected to the Japanese moves. Especially noteworthy is the analysis of the differ…
Beginning with the closing decade of European colonial rule in Southeast Asia and covering the wartime Japanese empire and its postwar disintegration, Tensions of Empire focuses on the Japanese in Southeast Asia, Indonesians in Japan, and the legacy of the war in Southeast Asia. It also examines Japanese perceptions of Southeast Asia and the lingering ambivalence toward Japanese involvement in …
Mengisahkan jalinan komunikasi antara penduduk asli Indonesia dan aktivis pergerakan kebangsaan dengan Jepang di dalam naungan Pemerintah kolonial Hindia-Belanda. Ekspatriat Jepang tersebut akhirnya berkembang menjadi warga kelas satu, di luar bangsa Eropa Pusat pemerintahan di Tokyo yang tidak kecil peranannya dalam mewujudkan prestise negara, secara intensif mulai mengarahkan pandangannya ke …