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THE INTERNMENT OF WESTERN CIVILIANS UNDER THE JAPANESE 1941–1945 RoutledgeCurzon Studies in the Modern History of Asia 1 The Police in Occupation Japan Control, corruption and resistance to reform Christopher Aldous 2 Chinese Workers A new history Jackie Sheehan 3 The Aftermath of Partition in South Asia Tai Yong Tan and Gyanesh Kudaisya 4 The Australia-Japan Political Alignment 1952 to the present Alan Rix 5 Japan and Singapore in the World Economy Japan’s Economic Advance into Singapore, 1870–1965 Shimizu Hiroshi and Hirakawa Hitoshi 6 The Triads as Business Yiu Kong Chu 7 Contemporary Taiwanese Cultural Nationalism A-chin Hsiau 8 Religion and Nationalism in India The Case of the Punjab Harnik Deol 9 Japanese Industrialisation Historical and Cultural Perspectives Ian Inkster 10 War and Nationalism in China 1925–1945 Hans J. van de Ven 11 Hong Kong in Transition One Country, Two Systems Edited by Robert Ash, Peter Ferdinand, Brian Hook and Robin Porter 12 Japan’s Postwar Economic Recovery and Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1948–1962 Noriko Yokoi 13 Japanese Army Stragglers and Memories of the War in Japan, 1950–1975 Beatrice Trefalt 14 Ending the Vietnam War The Vietnamese Communists’ Perspective Ang Cheng Guan 15 The Development of the Japanese Nursing Profession Adopting and Adapting Western Influences Aya Takahashi 16 Women’s Suffrage in Asia Gender Nationalism and Democracy Louise Edwards and Mina Roces 17 The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902–1922 Phillips Payson O’Brien 18 The United States and Cambodia, 1870–1969 From Curiosity to Confrontation Kenton Clymer 19 Capitalist Restructuring and the Pacific Rim Ravi Arvind Palat 20 The United States and Cambodia, 1969–2000 A Troubled Relationship Kenton Clymer 21 British Business in Post-Colonial Malaysia, 1957–70 ‘Neo-colonialism’ or ‘Disengagement’ Nicholas J. White 22 The Rise and Decline of Thai Absolutism Kullada Kesboonchoo Mead 23 Russian Views of Japan, 1792–1913 An Anthology of Travel Writing David N. Wells 24 The Internment of Western Civilians under the Japanese, 1941–1945 A Patchwork of Internment Bernice Archer THE INTERNMENT OF WESTERN CIVILIANS UNDER THE JAPANESE 1941–1945 A Patchwork of Internment BERNICE ARCHER First Published in 2004 in Great Britain by RoutledgeCurzon 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4 4EE and in the United States of America by RoutledgeCurzon 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 1001 This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Copyright © 2004 Bernice Archer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data: A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0-203-32587-7 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0 7146 5592 9 (cloth) ISBN 0 7146 8478 3 (paper) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: Archer, Bernice, 1940– The internment of Western civilians under the Japanese 1941–1945: a patchwork of internment/Bernice Archer. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7146-5592-9 1. World War, 1936–1945 – Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. 2. World War, 1938–1945 – Concentration camps – Orient. 3. Concentration camps – Orient. 4. Prisoners of war – Orient – Social conditions – 20th century. 8. Concentration camps – Orient – Psychological aspects – 20th century. I. Title. DS05.J3A65 2004 940.53’17’0952––dc22 2003062609 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher of this book. Japan went to war with virtually no policy for the treatment of pris- oners, especially enemy civilian internees. It could further be said that this problem was not even one of great concern for the Japanese Government. Japanese Historian, Utsumi Aiko, 1996 vii CONTENTS List of Illustrations x Acknowledgements xii Introduction 1 Chapter One The Prelude to War 29 Chapter Two The Men’s Response to Internment 65 Chapter Three The Women’s Response to Internment 115 Chapter Four The Children’s Response to Internment 173 Chapter Five Conclusion 217 Epilogue 237 Appendix Notes on the Oral History: Method Interviews and Correspondents 246 References 253 Index 274
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