ハヤシ エイイチ   Hayashi Eiichi
  林 英一
   所属   二松学舎大学  文学部 歴史文化学科
   二松学舎大学大学院  国際日本学研究科 国際日本学専攻
   職種   准教授
言語種別 英語
発行・発表の年月 2024/03
形態種別 速報,短報,研究ノート等(大学,研究機関紀要)
標題 The Process of Heroizing the Holdout Japanese Soldiers in Indonesia
執筆形態 単著
掲載誌名 Japan Review
掲載区分国内
出版社・発行元 the Japan Institute of International Affairs
巻・号・頁 6(2),pp.3-18
概要 This paper classifies the reasons why holdout Japanese soldiers remained in Indonesia into 15 categories, based on the 47 cases confirmed by documents. It also points out that 324 of them wished to live there after the War of Independence, but the local government was hesitant to grant them nationality. When Fukushi Tomo no Kai (Yayasan Warga Persahabatan), a benevolent society, was established in 1979, led by some of the successful who had achieved economic prosperity through the re-entry of Japanese companies to Indonesia, they revealed that the holdout Japanese soldiers were opposed to being identified as war victims by the Japanese people over their "homecoming" to Japan, and instead represented themselves as "heroes of independence."