Food Supplies and the Japanese Occupation in South-East Asia

by Paul H. Kratoska (Editor)

Overview

The Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia between 1941 and 1945 brought with it severe food shortages, largely arising from organizational failures and inadequate transportation. the nine essays in this volume examine the situation in food exporting countries such as Burma, Thailand and Vietnam, in food deficit areas such as Malaya, the Philippines and Java, and in Sarawak which was largely self-sufficient. Two essays examine in detail the famine that struck the Tonkin area of northern Vietnam in 1945.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349269396
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/1998
Series:	Studies in the Economies of East and South-East Asia
Edition description:	1st ed. 1998
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

R. A. CRAMB member of the Department of Agriculture, University of Queensland MOTOO FURUTA Professor, Department of Area Studies, University of Tokyo RICARDO TROTA JOSE Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Philippines PAUL H. KRATOSKA Member of the History Department, National University of Singapore AIKO KURASAWA Professor of Social History, Department of Economics, Keio University, Tokyo NGUYEN THE ANH Professor of Southeast Asian History, Sorbonne, Paris SHIGERU SATO Lecturer in Japanese Language and History, Department of Modern Languages, University of Newcastle PIERRE VAN DER ENG Senior Lecturer in Economic History, Australian National University, Canberra

Table of Contents

List of Tables List of Maps Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction; P. Kratoska The Impact of the Second World War on Commercial Rice Production in Mainland South-East Asia; P. Kratoska Transportation and Rice Distribution in South-East Asia During World War II; A. Kurasawa Food Production and Food Distribution Programmes in the Philippines During the Japanese Occupation; R. Trota Jose Malayan Food Shortages and the Kedah Rice Industry During the Japanese Occupation; P. Kratoska Agriculture and Food Supplies in Sarawak During the Japanese Occupation; R. Cramb Oppression and Romanticism: the Food Supply of Java During the Japanese Occupation; S. Sato Regulation and Control: Explaining the Decline of Food Production in Java, 1940-1946; P. van der Eng Japanese Food Policies and the 1945 Great Famine in Indochina; N. Th nh A Survey of Village Conditions During the 1945 Famine in Vietnam; M. Furuta Index

Editorial Reviews

Looks at the severe food shortages throughout the previously major rice producing countries of Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, and other parts of southeastern Asia during the Japanese occupation from 1941 to 1945. Examines rice cultivation, the difficulties of transportation, the effects of food shortages, regulation and control, Japanese food policies, the crop failure and resulting famine that killed many thousands in northern Vietnam in 1945, and other aspects. Earlier versions of some of the ten articles were presented at a December 1995 symposium in Singapore. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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