Takashi Sakata has published a new article discussing the Anti-Comintern Pact between Germany and Japan and the German-Soviet War beginning in 1941, as well as the capture of cinchona plantations and the Bandung Quinine Factory in Java on the distribution plans for quinine by the Japanese Army. Both production of cinchona bark and the derivative…Read more
Takashi Sakata has recently published a fascinating study related to malaria medicines and international affairs, this time related to the use of Indonesian quinine by the Japanese government as part of its wartime diplomacy. The three primary examples discussed in this article are Thailand, Bulgaria, and most importantly Afghanistan. In the later case, shipping of…Read more
One of our windows onto the Japanese occupation is the local press. These local papers present a lot of information, far beyond what is generally imagined once the label “propaganda” is attached. This includes a fair amount of information about malaria and medicine, but such information is not evenly spread. This short article provides a…Read more
In March 2021, I published a short paper on advertising for malaria medicines during the immediate prewar period, but continuing into the Japanese occupation period. In exploring this subject, I was hoping to get a better sense of who might be using the various medicines, and perhaps when changes took place. In fact, it was…Read more
As part of my efforts to understand society during World War II in Indonesia, this article provides a brief survey of some of the efforts in learning (and teaching) language during the war–both Japanese and Indonesian. These include things related to medicine, as during the occupation medical and other examinations could not be held in…Read more
