The encyclopedia of Indonesia in the Pacific War / edited by Peter Post (general editor), William H. Frederick, Iris Heidebrink, Shigeru Sato ; co-edited by William Bradley Horton and Didi Kwartanada

Author(s): Frederick, William H. | Heidebrink, Iris | Satō, Shigeru, 1950- | Post, Peter, 1953- | Frederick, William H. | Satō, Shigeru, 1950- | Heidebrink, Iris

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Main Title
The encyclopedia of Indonesia in the Pacific War / edited by Peter Post (general editor), William H. Frederick, Iris Heidebrink, Shigeru Sato ; co-edited by William Bradley Horton and Didi Kwartanada
Author(s)
Post, Peter, 1953-
Frederick, William H.
Heidebrink, Iris
Satō, Shigeru, 1950-
Collation
xxix, 684 pages, [24] pages of plates :
28 cm
ISBN
9789004168664
Dewey Class
940.53598
Contents
List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Map of Indonesia -- Chronological Table / Shigeru Sato --
1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION / Peter Post --
2. HISTORICAL OVERVIEW. INTRODUCTION / Peter Post -- 2.1 The war in the Pacific / Petra Groen ; Muslims and the coming of the Japanese / William H. Frederick ; The sinking of the Junyō Maru / Peter Post ; Oral tale of the invasion of Gorontalo (North Sulawesi) / William H. Frederick -- 2.2 Australia's war in New Guinea, and Australia in the liberation of the Netherlands East Indies / Steve Bullard ; Extracts from the diary of Tamura Yoshikazu / Keiko Tamura -- 2.3 Indonesia during the Japanese occupation / Ken'ichi Goto -- 2.4 The aftermath / William H. Frederick --
3. OCCUPATION: ADMINISTRATION AND POLICIES. INTRODUCTION / Shigeru Sato -- 3.1 Sumatra's regional governments / Gusti Asnan -- 3.2 Of 'permanent possession' - Territories under the Imperial Japanese Navy / Ooi Keat Gin -- 3.3 Dugas Jepangé/The Japanese period: Bali under the Japanese / Adrian Vickers -- 3.4 Administrative changes in Java / Shigeru Sato -- 3.5 Institutions / Robert Cribb -- 3.6 Nationalist activities during the Japanese period / Taufik Abdullah -- 3.7 Giyūgun: the indigenous defense force in Sumatra / Mestika Zed -- 3.8 The PETA / Shigeru Sato ; History and memories of the birth of the PETA / Shigeru Sato --
4. OCCUPATION: COERCION AND CONTROL. INTRODUCTION / Peter Post -- 4.1 Policing society / Peter Post ; A victim, the story of Pieter Toisuta / Marije Plomp -- 4.2 The guard house / Abidin Kusno -- 4.3 Internment of civilians / Jeroen Kemperman -- 4.4 Prisoners of war / Iris Heidebrink -- 4.5 Prisoners of war put to work at the Thailand-Burma railway / Arno Ooms -- 4.6 Comfort women / William Bradley Horton ; Various terms for a comfort woman / Shigeru Sato -- 4.7 Rōmusha. Introduction / Shigeru Sato ; Rōmusha from Yogyakarta / P.J. Suwarno -- 4.8 Calculated strategy or senseless murder? Mass killings in Japanese-occupied South and West Kalimantan, 1943-1945 / Ooi Keat Gin --
5. OCCUPATION: ECONOMY. INTRODUCTION / Shigeru Sato -- 5.1 Japanese control of enemy property / Peter Keppy -- 5.2 Monetary issues / Nico van Horn -- 5.3 Japanese business in war-time Indonesia / Yoko Hayashi, Yasuyuki Hikita -- 5.4 Relocation of labor and the rōmusha issue / Shigeru Sato ; A passage from a report from Bali, written by Suzuki Masahei, Japanese superintendent on education / Shigeru Sato -- 5.5 Under the Mitsui zaibatsu: coal and labor in Sumatra / Erwiza Erman -- 5.6 Economic life in villages and towns / Shigeru Sato -- 5.7 "Destroy the enemy with diamonds" / Peter Keppy --
6. OCCUPATION: SOCIETY AND SOCIAL CHANGE. INTRODUCTION / Peter Post -- 6.1 Social change / Aiko Kurasawa -- 6.2 Fujinkai (Women's Association) / Siti Fatimah -- 6.3 Islam during the Japanese occupation / Yasuko Kobayashi -- 6.4 Christianity / Karel Steenbrink ; A dedicated Japanese bishop serving Catholics in Flores / Karel Steenbrink ; Christian communities in Toraja (Central Sulawesi) / Iris Heidebrink -- 6.5 The education of Pribumi / Aiko Kurasawa -- 6.6 The road to resinification: education for the Chinese during the Japanese occupation / Didi Kwartanada -- 6.7 The Eurasian community during the Japanese occupation, 1942-1945 / Iris Heidebrink -- 6.8 The Arab minority / Huub de Jonge --
7. OCCUPATION: CULTURE. INTRODUCTION / William H. Frederick -- 7.1 Intellectual life and the media / Ethan Mark -- 7.2 The rise and fall of the Nippon Eigasha Jakarta Studio / Okada Hidenori -- 7.3 Literature / Helen Pourpouras -- 7.4 Language / Helen Pourpouras -- 7.5 The development of modern Indonesian painting / Helena Spanjaard ; Fragment of an interview of Kosei Ono with Barli Sasmitawinata, who was appointed chief of the Bandung branch of the Keimin Bunka Shidōsho in 1943 at the age of twenty-two / Iris Heidebrink -- 7.6 From Kimigayo to Indonesia Raya: Indonesian songs during the occupation / Jaap Erkelens and Iris Heidebrink ; Bengawan Solo / Margaret Kartomi ; Bengawan Solo in other words / Jaap Erkelens -- 7.7 Chinese socio-cultural life in Java during the occupation / Didi Kwartanada --
8. POST-WAR BURDENS AND MEMORY. INTRODUCTION / William H. Frederick -- 8.1 War crimes tribunals / Iris Heidebrink and Aiko Utsumi ; Pleading letter of Captain Miyazaki Ryōhei / Peter Post ; The 'serum-case' / Aukje Zuidema ; Massacre on Babar Island / Shigeru Sato -- 8.2 Japanese memory of the wartime occupation of Indonesia / Atsushi Ota ; The last Japanese soldier in Indonesia / Beatrice Trefalt -- 8.3 Dutch post-war visions / Elsbeth Locher-Scholten ; An unusual love affair / Eveline Buchheim ; Thai brides / Arno Ooms -- 8.4 Dutch memories of the war / Lizzy van Leeuwen ; Shiroi Hada to Kiiroi Taichō (White Skin, Yellow Commander) / Iris Heidebrink -- 8.5 Indonesian historiograpy of the occupation period / Adrian Vickers ; My liberation day (Hari Kemerdekaan) / Aukje Zuidema -- 8.6 Indonesian views / William H. Frederick --
9. LEXICON OF PEOPLE, EVENTS AND INSTITUTIONS -- 10a. INDONESIAN GLOSSARY -- 10b. JAPANESE GLOSSARY -- 11. BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 12. INDEX.
List of Figures and Tables. Figures. Map of the Japanese conquest of the Netherlands East Indies, 1941-1942 -- Map of Allied military operations and positions, mid-July to August 1945 -- Map of Southeast Asia showing territories under the Imperial Japanese Navy administration -- Structure of the military administration in Navy occupied areas (December 1941) -- Structure of the military administration in Navy occupied areas (later stage) -- Administrative organization in the Navy controlled areas (early stage) -- Map of the positions of PETA battalions in Java, Madura, and Bali -- The Kenpeitai organization and leadership under the 16th Army (early stage) -- Map of comfort stations in the Halmaheira area (Sulawesi) -- Organizational chart for the development of the Muarasijunjung-Pekanbaru railway line -- Network of responsibility for Japanese atrocities in South and West Kalimantan, 1943-1945 -- Schematic representation of Japanese enemy property control -- Definition of war crimes as used by the temporary court martials in the NEI --
Tables. Number of interned civilians in the NEI -- Number of POWs at the Thai-Burma railway (including death toll) -- Four Japanese brothels in Jakarta -- Brothel names and locations in Semarang -- Agricultural estates in Java, 1944 -- Japan's wartime trade with the Netherlands East Indies -- Investments of Japanese companies in Southeast Asia during the Pacific War -- The Southern Fuel Depot (Headquarters in Singapore) -- Crude oil production -- Crude oil production in the Netherlands East Indies, 1940-1945 -- Oil shipments to Japan, 1942-1945 -- List of Japanese factories and estates in Java during the war -- Accidents at the Ombilin coal mines, 1942-1945 -- Number of primary schools in the Navy area, September 1943 -- Number of junior high schools in the Navy areas, September 1943 -- Number of primary school pupils in Bali, April 1944 -- The development of Dutch-medium Chinese schools in comparison with the Chinese-medium schools, 1920-1940 -- Chinese-medium schools in some localities in Java, 1942-1944 -- Name list of judges at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal -- Name list of prosecutors at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal -- Name list of the defense counsel at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal -- Name list of the defendants at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal and their sentences -- Results of the B and C class war crimes trials -- Number of units and members of Tokubetsu Kakyō Keibōtai in Java's regencies and sultanates (ca. August 1945).
Subject
World War, 1939-1945 -- Indonesia -- Encyclopedias
Indonesia -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1942-1945 -- Encyclopedias
BRN
9976

Notes

  • "In cooperation with the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation."

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