Author: [JAQUET, L.G.M.],
Title: Ten Years of Japanese Burrowing in the Netherlands East Indies. Official Report of the Netherlands East Indies Government on Japanese subversive activities in the Archipelago during the last decade. First (and only) english edn, transl. after the orig. dutch restricted edn.
Description: New York, N.I.B., [circa], 1942. Small 8°, original wraps., [132]pp., facs. of official secret Japanese documents on pp.[70-132], incl. some portrs. of japanese officers, list of names of japanese officers 'visiting' pre-war colonial Indonesia., errata. Very important & rare publ. suppl. ample detailed information on japanese espionage in pre-war colonial Indonesia, during a decade (1932-1942).The Japanese Military Police (Kenpeitai) tried, in vain, to find author's name, after the occupation, as this publ. was rather embarrassing to the Japanese. Orig. publ. under the title:Tien Jaar Japansch Gewroet in Indië.. Rare. (wrs. somewh. frayed on rims, spine with a narrow mod. cloth backstrip).

Keywords: japanese occupation/espionage