World War II Singapore: The Chōsabu Reports on Syonan
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Translated and edited by Gregg Huff & Shinobu Majima
"The introductory chapters not only explain the context but also contribute to the history of economic thought in Japan and to the economic history of Southeast Asia." - Tetsuji Okazaki, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo
"This book gives voice to Singapore’s World War II Japanese occupiers trying to make sense of their task in real time, as it unfolded. This is a unique set of contemporary observations…" - Avner Offer, All Souls College, University of Oxford
Gregg Huff is Senior Research Fellow, Pembroke College, University of Oxford and researches and teaches Southeast Asian economic history and development.
Shinobu Majima is Professor of Economic History at Gakushuin University, Japan, and a part-time researcher at the Institute of Economic Research at Hitotsubashi University, the postwar successor of the Institute of East Asian Economies at the Tokyo University of Commerce.
Publication Year: 2018
520 pages, 229mm x 152mm
ISBN: 978-981-4722-62-9, Casebound
175 tables, 12 figures
NUS Press