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A Japanese memoir of Sumatra, 1945-1946 : love and hatred in the liberation war by Fusayama, Takao, 1916-2003. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Dr. Takao Fusayama's memoir was first brought to our attention by Louis Allen, the well-known English historian of World War 2 and author of the classic account of the Allied victory in the Pacific, End of the War in Asia. Dr. Fusayama, an eminent professor of dentistry in Tokyo, in his search to obtain a copy of Allen's book, then out of print, spent a couple of days with Louis Allen at his home in Durham in the northeast of England, about four years ago. Fusayama recounted his experiences as a signals officer in the Japan's Imperial Guard Division to Allen, who even persuaded his guest to talk over the telephone with one of the British officers who had interrogated him after Japan's surrender more than forty years earlier. While in Sumatra Fusayama had become involved with the Indonesian war of independence, and, as Allen wrote: "All this he has not only written up in Japanese, but he's produced a typescript, about 50,000 words, I reckon, on this period of the surrender and the various modus vivendi he and the other Japanese had to contrive in order to walk the tightrope between obeying the surrender orders to us and keeping the friendship of the locals whom they'd, in their view

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Author

Fusayama, Takao, 1916-2003.

Publisher

Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, 1993.

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780877630371

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Humanities