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

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.

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