アジア人兵士と BC 級戦犯裁判 : 太平洋戦争末期におけるニューギニア戦線とインドネシア兵補
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In the Asia-Pacific area during the Second World War, especially the New Guinea front particularly fierce battles were fought between Japan and the Allied Forces. There were a large number of soldiers other than Japanese who fought with the Japanese Army in the Solomon archipelago, Eastern and Western New Guinea. They were Asiatic Prisoners of War (POWs) of the Allied armies. A considerable number of Asiatic POWs-up to 17,000,about 12 percent of all the Japanese Army in these area-were "reorganized" as assistant soldiers (Hei-ho) for the Japanese Army in the early stage of the Japanese occupation. The Hei-ho included British Indian, British Malayan and "Indonesian" Dutch colonial army soldiers. This paper focuses on the ex-POW Hei-hos' activities in the Japanese Army along with the progress of the military operations. The focus is firstly given on its origin and plans in the higher echelon to take some measures concerning treatment for the tremendous numbers of Asian POWs captured in the early stage of Pacific War. Hei-ho became a device for which the Japanese Army filled up the vacancies of their own personnel. The casualties of the Japanese Army-both Japanese and Asiatic ex-POWs-were enormous. And inappropriate Japanese treatment of POWs caused the main reason for the post-war BC class War Tribunal accusing Japanese personnel at Wewak and Hollandia. Manus held by Dutch and Australia military forces. The harsh situation surrounding these units will lead us to see the inconsistencies of operational decisions by the higher echelon of the Japanese military and to see clear contradictions between the ideal and realities of the Japanese "liberation of Asia". This paper is based on historical materials such as Japanese, Australian, U.S. and Dutch official military histories, unit histories and also memoirs of Japanese veterans' and interviews of survivors.
- 上智大学の論文
- 2001-12-27
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