Japanese-trained Armies in Southeast AsiaThis is the first study by a Western scholar of a significant facet of the history of the Second World War - Japanese-trained independence and volunteer armies as agents of revolution and modernization. At the time, the Japanese did not see that their military imprinting would affect a whole generation of political/military leadership of nations of post-Second World War Southeast Asia. Leaders like Suharto, Ne Win and Park are all products of Japanese military training. |
Contents
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2 The Indian National Army | 19 |
3 The Burma Independence Army | 39 |
4 Peta | 75 |
5 Volunteer Armies in Malaya Sumatra Indochina Borneo and the Philippines | 113 |
6 Revolt of the Independence Armies | 146 |
7 The Significance of the Japanese Military Model for Southeast Asia | 167 |
Common terms and phrases
Administration in Indonesia areas Asian Atjeh Atjehnese Aung San Ba Maw Beppan Biruma Blitar Blitar revolt Bogor Bose British Burma Independence Army Burmese Burmese independence Colonel command cooperation daidan defense Djakarta Dutch F Kikan forces Fujiwara Gatot Giyūgun Giyūtai goals Greater East Asia guerrilla Ibid IGHQ Imamura Imphal Inada independence movement Indian independence Indian National Army Indochina Indonesia intelligence Interview Iwakuro Japan Japanese Army Japanese Military Administration Japanese occupation Japanese officers Japanese policy Japanese-trained Java Kawabe Kıkan Kokubu Kurasawa leadership Lubis Makapili Malay Malaya Maung military training Minami Kikan Mohan Singh Muslim Nakano Gakkō nationalist leaders Navy Ne Win Nihon gunsei shi okeru Nihon gunsei operations Peta Philippines political post-war propaganda Rangoon recruited revolutionary role Sawamoto Senshishitsu Singapore Southeast Asia Southern Army Headquarters Staff Headquarters staff officers Sugii Sukarno Sumatra Suprijadi Suzuki Tanggerang thirty comrades Tōjō tokumu Tokyo units volunteer armies wartime Waseda Yanagawa