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