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.