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Djiwa Baroe: The Japanese Occupation of Java and the Indonesian Press

William Bradley HortonApril 1, 2021Publications

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

Shifting Communication: Language learning during the Japanese occupation of Indonesia

William Bradley HortonApril 1, 2020Publications

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

Recent Posts

HOMSEA 2023 conference
by William Bradley Horton
May 23, 2023
The 2023 HOMSEA (History of Medicine in Southeast Asia) conference will be held in Singapore at Nanyang Technological University from June 9-11, 2023. Two of our project researchers will be attending and presenting papers. Brad Horton (me) will present “Obat Asli: Indonesian Doctors, the Jamu Commission and Alternative Medicines for Malaria from Local Indonesian Materials...Read more
New article on malaria and international affairs in the WWII era
by William Bradley Horton
April 1, 2023
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
EuroSEAS 2022: Medical Business at the Close of the Colonial Era
by William Bradley Horton
July 10, 2022
At the EuroSEAS 2022 conference held at the L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, one panel was directly related to this project: Medical Business at the Close of the Colonial Era. This panel sought to broadly illustrate some elements of business involvement in this shifting health-scape in Southeast Asia immediately before WWII,...Read more
Malaria Wars: The War Against Malaria in Japanese Occupied Indonesia
by William Bradley Horton
September 12, 2021
On September 12, 2021 a comprehensive workshop/symposium was held online to try to advance our collaborative project work as well as to engage a wider global audience. With attendees from several different countries, the discussion of different issues related to malaria in World War II was engaging, covering more than 6 hours of presentations and...Read more
EuroSEAS 2021: A Tropical Disease Between Tokyo and Java – Intertwining Histories of Malaria
by William Bradley Horton
September 10, 2021
At the September 2021 EuroSEAS meetings held hosted by Palacký University Olomouc (in the Czech Republic), this project sponsored a double panel on the histories of Malaria in Asia. With its 5 presentations centered on Indonesia, this panel brought together discussions of medical and more “social” aspects of Malaria around the 1940s, with the goal...Read more