R. A. CRAMB member of the Department of Agriculture, University of QueenslandMOTOO FURUTA Professor, Department of Area Studies, University of TokyoRICARDO TROTA JOSE Associate Professor, Department of History, University of PhilippinesPAUL H. KRATOSKA Member of the History Department, National University of SingaporeAIKO KURASAWA Professor of Social History, Department of Economics, Keio University, TokyoNGUYEN THE ANH Professor of Southeast Asian History, Sorbonne, ParisSHIGERU SATO Lecturer in Japanese Language and History, Department of Modern Languages, University of NewcastlePIERRE VAN DER ENG Senior Lecturer in Economic History, Australian National University, Canberra

• List of Tables List of Maps Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction; P. Kratoska The Impact of the Second World War on Commercial Rice Production in Mainland South-East Asia; P. Kratoska Transportation and Rice Distribution in South-East Asia During World War II; A. Kurasawa Food Production and Food Distribution Programmes in the Philippines During the Japanese Occupation; R. Trota Jose Malayan Food Shortages and the Kedah Rice Industry During the Japanese Occupation; P. Kratoska Agriculture and Food Supplies in Sarawak During the Japanese Occupation; R. Cramb Oppression and Romanticism: the Food Supply of Java During the Japanese Occupation; S. Sato Regulation and Control: Explaining the Decline of Food Production in Java, 1940-1946; P. van der Eng Japanese Food Policies and the 1945 Great Famine in Indochina; N. Th�nh A Survey of Village Conditions During the 1945 Famine in Vietnam; M. Furuta Index