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Comparative/World

Junko Tomaru. The Postwar Rapprochement of Malaya and Japan, 1945–1961: The Roles of Britain and Japan in South-East Asia. (St. Antony's Series.) New York: St. Martin's, in association with St. Antony's College, Oxford. 2000. Pp. xiv, 317.

Historians Michael Schaller, William S. Borden, and Andrew Jon Rotter have extensively studied the role the United States played in encouraging Japan's post-World War II economic reentry into Southeast Asia, but Great Britain's attitude on the issue has received little attention. Also, Asian perspectives on postwar Japanese-Southeast Asian reconciliation generally have received short shrift in English-language works. Junko Tomaru's study of Japan's relations with Malaya (now peninsular Malaysia and Singapore) through 1961 goes far in filling these gaps. Malaya remained under British colonial rule until the late 1950s, permitting Tomaru to examine fully British, Japanese, and Southeast Asian perspectives. 1

Tomaru argues that the British, who recognized both Japan's need for trade and the benefits Japanese economic involvement could bring to the region, initially regarded the prospect of Japanese-Southeast Asian trade more favorably than did the Americans. Iron mines developed by Japanese firms in remote rural areas during the prewar era provided the initial venues for a renewed Japanese presence in Malaya. This mining activity threatened no British economic interests, created jobs, and generated tax revenues. The British also welcomed the import of cheap Japanese textiles immediately after the war because of a serious shortage of cloth in Southeast Asia. . . .

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