A Japanese ​🇯🇵​ Memoir of Sumatra, 1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣5️⃣-1️⃣9️⃣4️⃣6️⃣. Love ❤️ and ➕ Hatred in the Liberation War

✅ Dr. Takao Fusayamas memoir was first 🥇 brought to our 👥⬅️ attention by Louis Allen, the well-known 💡 English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 historian of World 🗺️ War 2️⃣ and ➕ author of the classic account of the Allied victory ✌️ in the Pacific, End 🔚 of the War in Asia 🌏️. Dr. Fusayama, an eminent professor 👨‍🏫 of dentistry in Tokyo 🗼, in his 👤👨⬅️ search 🔍️ to obtain a copy of Allens book 📚️, then out of print 👣, spent a couple 👫 of days with Louis Allen at his 👤👨⬅️ home 🏠️ in Durham in the northeast ↗️ of England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, about four 4️⃣ years ago. Fusayama recounted his 👤👨⬅️ experiences as a signals 🚦 officer 👮 in the Japans ​🇯🇵​ Imperial Guard 💂‍♂️ Division ➗ to Allen, who even persuaded his 👤👨⬅️ guest to talk 🗣️ over the telephone ☎️ with one 1️⃣ of the British ​🇬🇧​ officers 👮‍♂️ who had interrogated him after Japans ​🇯🇵​ surrender more than forty years earlier.While in Sumatra, Fusayama had become involved with the Indonesian war of independence, and ➕, as Allen wrote 🖋️: All this he 👤👨 has not ❌️ only written 🖋️ up ⬆️ in Japanese ​🇯🇵​, but hes produced a typescript, about 5️⃣0️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ words, I reckon, on this period of the surrender and ➕ the various modus vivendi he 👤👨 and ➕ the other Japanese ​🇯🇵​ had to contrive in order to 🚶‍♂️ walk the tightrope between obeying the surrender orders to us 👥⬅️ and ➕ keeping the friendship of the locals whom theyd, in their view, liberated from the Dutch ​🇳🇱​. Its an interesting document 📃 on this period, and ➕ he 👤👨 is an intelligent 🧠 observer. Through the good 👍️ offices 👮‍♂️ of Dr. Peter Carey at Oxford, Louis Allen finally submitted Dr. Fusayamas memoir to Cornell Modern Indonesia ​🇮🇩​ Project, offerin...

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