| Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 523 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Southeast Asia in the Pacific War -- Administration and Social Control in Southeast Asia -- Finance for Japan's Occupation -- National Product and Trade -- Transport, Public Utilities and Industrialization -- Shortages, Substitutes and Rationing -- Food and Famine in Southeast Asia -- Food and Living Standards in Urban Southeast Asia -- Labour and the Japanese -- Costs of War and Lessons of Occupation |
| Summary |
"The 7 December 1941 attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor by Japan was a gamble. Japan was already entangled in a longstanding, probably unwinnable war in China which since its outbreak in mid-1937 had cost 185,000 Japanese dead and billions of yen. Pearl Harbor opened a second military front and dangerously committed Japan, with a relatively small population and limited economic capacity, to a full-scale Pacific War. For Southeast Asia, the war brought three and a half years of Japanese occupation from the end of 1941 until Japan surrendered unconditionally on 15 August 1945. During this period, GDP in most Southeast Asian countries fell by half; 4.4 million civilians died prematurely; severe shortages of food and goods affected almost all Southeast Asians; and many lived in fear of draconian military rule. The present book explores why and how this happened."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Southeast Asia
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Occupied territories.
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Economic history
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Military occupation
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
Southeast Asia -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
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Southeast Asia -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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| Subject |
Southeast Asia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108916677 |
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9781316162934 |
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1316162931 |
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1108916678 |
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