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Article: A Sudden Rampage: The Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia, 1941-1945.(Book Review)
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- June 22, 2003
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A Sudden Rampage: The Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia, 1941-1945. By Nicholas Tarling. (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001. Pp. xv, 286. $36.00.)
Southeast Asia was strategically significant in the context of World War II. The oil reserves of Sumatra and Borneo, as well as the rice, rubber, and tin plantations of other parts of Southeast Asia, were to play an important role in expanding Japanese industry, as well as plans for the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. The study of the Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia, however, has previously been limited to monographs on specific topics or societies by Western and Asian historians. This work ...