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.
Ken’ichi Goto is a professor of international relations at the Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies and a former director of the Institute of Social Sciences at Waseda University, Tokyo. His publications include Returning to Asia: Japan-Indonesia Relations, 1930s—1942 and International Relations Surrounding Portuguese Timor, 1900—1945 (in Japanese). Paul Kratoska teaches Southeast Asian history at the National University of Singapore.
“This is an excellent collection of articles written by Japan’s
foremost historian of Japan’s evolving relations with Southeast
Asia during the 20th century. Goto refutes the widely held view
that Japan invaded Southeast Asia in 1941 to liberate Asian people
from Western Colonialism.”
*The Japan Times*
“These essays by one of Japan’s most distinguished scholars of
Southeast Asia are the product of a long period of research into
Japan’s relations with Southeast Asia during the 1930s and 1940s,
and on into the postwar era. Written in a nonpartisan spirit, they
offer great insight into diverse Japanese perceptions of the
region, and interactions between individual Japanese and individual
Southeast Asians during this crucial period.”
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