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From Idealism to the Ground: The Japanese Empire's Occupation of Southeast Asia - The Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore, 1941–45: A Social and Economic History. By Paul H. Kratoska. 2nd ed.Singapore: National University Press of Singapore, 2018. xxvii, 407 pp. ISBN: 9789971696382 (paper). - Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War: A Transnational History. By Ethan Mark. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. xii, 386 pp. ISBN: 9781350022201 (cloth). - The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War. By Jeremy A. Yellen. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2019. xi, 288 pp. ISBN: 9781501735547 (cloth).

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The Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore, 1941–45: A Social and Economic History. By Paul H. Kratoska. 2nd ed.Singapore: National University Press of Singapore, 2018. xxvii, 407 pp. ISBN: 9789971696382 (paper).

Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War: A Transnational History. By Ethan Mark. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. xii, 386 pp. ISBN: 9781350022201 (cloth).

The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere: When Total Empire Met Total War. By Jeremy A. Yellen. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2019. xi, 288 pp. ISBN: 9781501735547 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2020

Kirsten L. Ziomek*
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2 Lebra, Joyce C., Japan's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere in World War II: Selected Readings and Documents (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975)Google Scholar.

3 MacArthur, Douglas and SCAP, Reports of General MacArthur: The Campaigns of MacArthur in the Pacific (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1966), 1:295Google Scholar.