【院生ゼミ】7月6日
【大学院】
This week, we discuss the Second World War in Southeast Asia, based on Chapter 9 of Osborne's Southeast Asia: An Introductory History.
Some of the topics we discussed include:
- What was the primary motivation of the Japanese invasion of Southeast Asia?
- How did nationalists in Southeast Asia perceive the Japanese advancement into the region?
- How different was the Japanese occupation of the French Indochina from the Japanese occupation in other parts of the region?
- Why were ethnic Chinese in Malaya and Singapore treated more savagely by the Japanese compared with the Malay population?
- How did the Japanese surrender affect the colonization of Southeast Asia?
To facilitate our understanding of the topics, we watched two versions of the recount of the Japanese construction of the "Death Railway" connecting Thailand and Burma: One is the Hollywood film "
We will conclude the last class of this semester next week by watching some of the Japanese war propaganda movies created in Java during World War II and discussing the Indonesian nationalists' activities during and after the war.