Indochina in the 1940s and 1950s : translation of contemporary Japanese scholarship on Southeast Asia

In these essays, Japanese scholars deal with topics such as the Japanese involvement in and occupation of Indochina during World War II, anti-Japanese sentiment in Indochina, Vietnam Communist Party attitudes toward Laos and Cambodia, and the early stages of the civil war in Vietnam. CONTENTS Introduction 1. The Nishihara Mission In Hanoi, July 1940 2. Two Features of Japan's Indochina Policy During the Pacific War 3. Indochina's Role in Japan's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: A Food-Procurement Strategy 4. The Background to the Formation of the Tran Trong Kim Cabinet in April 1945: Japanese Plans for Governing Vietnam 5. The Indochina Communist Party's Division into Three Parties: Vietnamese Communist Policy Toward Cambodia and Laos, 1948-1951 6. Changes in the Literary Policy of the Vietnamese Workers' Party, 1956–1958