All the open spaces around the great naval airfield at Surabaya, Java, are set with bamboo stakes, about waist high, their tops whittled razor-sharp. A visiting journalist recently asked what they ...

FAMILY JAPANESE IDENTIFICATION CARD ISSUED TO US ON ENTERING THE CONCENTRATION CAMP. My experiences in Japanese Concentration Camps on Java, Indonesia (former Dutch East Indies) 1941 — 1945 J.E.H.

Mon, September 29, 2014 Published on Sep. 29, 2014 Published on 2014-09-29T11:08:50+07:00 During World War II, the island of Java experienced major social and political change. From 1942 to 1945, the ...

A new book by a World War II veteran has shed light on a little-known postscript to the conflict in the Far East—and one that was officially denied by the UK government of the day. "Parachute Doctor: ...

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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - East Java Governor Soekarwo said a number of Japanese companies had expressed their readiness to relocate their offices to East Java from other regions in Indonesia. According to ...

Japan, a country “synonymous with technical revolution,” was recently given a first-hand look at some of the new Java Card technologies, including the Next Generation Java Card. The first ever Java ...

JAKARTA -- Three Japanese and two Indonesian companies are set to win a $1.2 billion contract to build a port in West Java, Indonesia's Ministry of Transportation said Sunday, as the country looks to ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's convenience store operators are jostling for eminence in a famously cut-throat industry, and one product has come up trumps for the market's top players - coffee. Millions ...

Japan's Meteorological Agency said on Sunday confirmed that there was no Tsunami impact from the Mount Semeru volcano that erupted on 4 December in Indonesia, public broadcaster NHK said. Indonesian ...